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 →
Curiosity is an intrinsic motivation necessary for animals to acquire new information. One way to examine information seeking in animals, has been to present animals with novel objects and measure... read more →
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End of October we celebrated the first Birthday of the Urban Vervet Project by giving a public talk on our project progress at the Simbithi estate and a very nice... read more →
During this Field visit at Simbithi, I had the pleasure to host ARTE film crew, where the Urban Vervet Project will be featured. We absolutely enjoyed seeing our monkeys through... read more →
After my time in Kalahari, I traveled across South Africa to my other study site, the Urban Vervet Project. Spending two amazing weeks with the current ground team of Stef,... read more →