April brought on a wonderful field trip to the ongoing Meerkat Cognition Project at the Kalahari Research Centre in South Africa to catch up with the onsite team. Claire and... read more →
The Novel Object/ Food paradigms represent a widespread method in behavioral ecology and animal cognition to assess personality traits like exploration, curiosity and boldness. In this new paper we validate... read more →
The Einstein Foundation, Berlin is supporting our research on experience effects on chimpanzee cognition. Have a look at the project aims in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkB4nzaN-4
With the new year of 2025 I was honored to join the editorial board of the journal Animal Behaviour. As a member of the Association for the Study of Animal... read more →
At the end of 2024, we expressed our gratitude to our funder, the KONE Foundation Finland, by contributing a news story to their homepage. If you're curious about our progress... read more →
The students of the Urban Vervet Project have had a productive Summer presenting our latest results on primate adaptations to anthropogenic environments at both the European Federation for Primatology’s conference... read more →
I had the great pleasure and honour to become one of the Faculty Members of the Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute 2024. For this I spent a solid week interacting with... read more →
I am very proud of Lindsey Ellington, the UVP's first MSc student for publishing her study comparing object curiosity across three different habitats; captive, urban and wild. We find that... read more →
I am extremely honoured to have been awarded the Academic Excellence Award by the FAN (Fond für Akademische Nachwuchs) at the University of Zurich. With this generous financial support I... read more →
Curiosity is necessary for learning new information but how universal is it across intelligent systems? Find out in our new Paper in Biological Reviews. This has been a fantastic collaboration... read more →