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 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 →