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 →
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 →
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 →
Sofia attended the Behaviour conference (link: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/veranstaltungen/behaviour2023/) in Bielefeld, Germany in August, where she gave two key note presentations as part of two different symposiums: "From the countryside to the city:... read more →
We are all beyond excitement to kick off the new branch of the Inkawu Vervet Project, namely the URBAN VERVET PROJECT - starting this November. Check out our beautiful new... read more →
From October 2022 onwards I have been accepted as an Honorary Research Fellow at our collaborating South African University of Kwazulu-Natal. This is wonderful news for maintaining our local collaboration... read more →
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 →