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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Recently our field team has detected how our semi-urban monkeys are raiding newly introduced bird feeders within our study site of Simbithi Eco Estate, South Africa. We are now excited... read more →
We are currently looking for a passionate fieldworker to join our data collection team at the Kalahari Research Centre. Using both observational end experimental methods you will be studying the... read more →
This MSc project will focus on identifying different types of alarm calls and the context in which they are used in a semi urban vervet monkey population. In particular, we... read more →