Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻

We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social

#PrimateCognition #AI

Interrupting your regularly scheduled program to wish you a Mora Christmas and a Feliz Navidog

🌡️🔥Check out our new Science Advances paper on how #ClimateChange impacts the immune performance of wild capuchins 🐒!

Lead by Jordan Lucore check out the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Watch the explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7yl...

A Snapshot of Scientific Thought on Emotions in Animals.

Check out our recent survey of #animalbehavior researchers' perception of #animalemotions and consciousness.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

news.emory.edu/features/202...

Hi! I’m Marcela Benítez (she/her)
#anthropologist 🧑‍🔬| #primatologst 🐒| #queerinstem🌈

•Co-director of Capuchinos de Taboga in Costa Rica 🇨🇷

•Director of SoCaP lab @Emory

•Broadly interested in social behavior 🤝, cognition 🧠, hormones & behavior 🧬, field experiments 🌴, queer animals 🌈🦍, soccer ⚽