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 →
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 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 →
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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 →