In October, the Meerkat Cognition Project’s ground team set up all the necessary data collection and experiments for Season 2 of our Field data collection. This year some meerkat groups... read more →
Celebration time again! In October 2023, I was lucky to receive a SPARK grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to fund the latest ideas developing for the Urban Vervet... read more →
During this year’s field trip, I had the privilege to introduce the Kalahari meerkats to my family, who joined the field team for two weeks. Luna representing generation II of... read more →
On September the 2nd, Sofia held a public talk at the Zoological Museum, University of Zurich “Studying wild animals in South Africa: meerkat cognition and urbanization in vervet monkeys” for... read more →
Listen to my Contribution on Apes, Evolution and Curiosity Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/choosetobecurious/ep-184-curiosity-in-apes-with-sofia-forss?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fchoosetobecurious%252Fep-184-curiosity-in-apes-with-sofia-forss Here you find the Podcast: Choose to be curious
The influence of captive environments and human exposure on cognitive mechanisms in animals remain poorly understood. Although diminished neophobia, resulting from a safer environment and more “free” time, has been... read more →
Happy days and probably the highlight of 2021; I am excited to share the news that I have received an Ambizione Grant to start my own research group in 2022,... read more →
Past Summer I was lucky to be accepted a place in the transdisciplinary Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI). This involved three weeks of intense interactions and workshops with other early... read more →
Hand in Hand with my experience at the Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute, the Summer of 2021 continued to boost my transdisciplinary interests, as I was awarded a Junior Fellowship at... read more →
Check out my new article in PeerJ, where I study variation in problem-solving skills in chimpanzees. These brand-new results remind me of the wonderful opportunity I had to spend a... read more →