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📣 New paper alert! Capuchin monkeys showed selective information seeking behaviour, suggesting that this is a flexible & domain general behaviour, not just a foraging strategy 🧪 🐒 #CompCogPapers #ComparativeCognition #Monkey #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Peek a boo! Information seeking about food and functionality in capuchin monkeys - Animal Cognition
The ability to be aware of your own knowledge state (metacognition) can be investigated by examining an individual’s information-seeking behaviour. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) perform strategic sear...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect
larschittka.bsky.social Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 19d
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
laurenguillette.bsky.social
'Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions' http://bit.ly/3W46Cjs by Jackson et al.

#numericalprocessing #comparativecognition

#psynomLB @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions
Learning & Behavior - The Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect reflects an association of magnitude with space. For example, humans typically map small numbers to one...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
hljim.bsky.social
My first postdoc paper is out in #ScientificReports! 🥳

🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation

🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP

#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess
Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
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October 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
simply-put-psych.bsky.social
Just read a paper on honeybees, with around 1 million neurons, bees show abstract numerical reasoning once thought unique to primates. Meaning:
✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5).
✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!!
#AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction
Honeybees learn to add or subtract one item from a set using color cues and can interpolate operations to a novel number.
www.science.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
campsydept.bsky.social
Who's the good boy? 🐶🐦‍⬛

Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️

Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk

@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
Can an old rook learn new tricks?
YouTube video by Cambridge University
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September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
Tune in This Friday! Dr. @emmatecwyn.bsky.social and Dr. Ben Farrar, two leaders in the field will discuss the application of open science tools in comparative cognition (registration below) 🧪 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #WomenInStem #ComparativeCognition #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #BigTeamScience
emmatecwyn.bsky.social Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4
Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩

🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟

📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom

🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...

#openscience #bigteamscience
Flyer for Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research webinar
September 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
manydogsproject.bsky.social ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · Jul 22
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!
July 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
epronizius.bsky.social
Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 1
Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvche_v1
July 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
mysterasamuelson.bsky.social
Updated deadline for our special issue!
Manuscript Summary: 7/10/25
Manuscript Submission: 12/10/25
See the link below if you are interested in contributing!

#ethology #frontiersinethology #comparativecognition

www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | At the Nexus of Environment & Ethology: Considerations for the Role of Environmental Cues in Ethological Research
The impact of environment on the health and welfare of nonhuman animals varies widely depending upon a series of species-specific factors, including the targ...
www.frontiersin.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
laniusondrej.bsky.social
Goffins, shrikes, tits — I had the pleasure of talking about all of them at #VetMedUni in Vienna! 🇦🇹🪶🦜🦅
Thanks to @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social for the invitation. 🤩 It was fantastic to catch up with this wonderful group of brilliant people over good 🍻
#ComparativeCognition
May 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
laurenguillette.bsky.social
33rd International Conference on Comparative Cognition is 15-18 April 2026 at the Delta Hotel in Montreal, Canada!

#CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social

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May 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
c3polab.bsky.social
Conferences, conferences, conferences! Our team has been busy presenting talks and posters sharing our lab’s research on all things comparative and all things animal 👤🐵🐶🐬🦀

#sciencecommunication #co3_2025 #sspp_2025 #c3polab #comparativecognition #animalcommunication
April 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
Get your final bids in for the many great items in the silent #auction! Login here to take a look at the items and add your bids before 11:59 am comparativecognition... #CO3_2025
March 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
6/8 However, Kanzi's toolmaking skills had limitations compared to humans.

Researchers found bonobos had more failed attempts and produced smaller flakes than humans. "Their limitations were both biomechanical and cognitive," Toth explains.
#ComparativeCognition #HumanEvolution
March 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
laurenguillette.bsky.social
See Julia's next presentation at #CO3_2025 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social 'Conformity in nest-building decisions' March 26- 29 in Albuquerque, NM

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March 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
laurenguillette.bsky.social
See Ben's next presentation at #CO3_2025 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social "What is a birds’ favorite colour? The effect of bias on nest-building decisions" March 26 - 29 in Albuquerque, NM.

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March 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
johanlind.bsky.social
..oh, speaking of working memory, you know that the influential chimps-have-better-working-memory-than-humans study, albeit impressive, made some flawed claims:

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#workingmemory #comparativecognition
Screen shot of paper abstract
February 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
johanlind.bsky.social
Always interesting to read this group's stuff on working memory & their comparison between humans and other animals => www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#comparativecognition #culturalevolution
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February 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
comparativeminds.bsky.social
Interested in #comparativecognition? Keen to work with #dogs? Interested in applying for a Newton International Fellowship? Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
royalsociety.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
#CO32025 is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 26-29th, 2025, and features 5 &10 min talks, posters, the Early Career Award talk, and a Master Lecture by Prof. Suzanne MacDonald. More information available on the conference webpage.

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December 19, 2024 at 9:42 PM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
The deadline for awards was also extended: Early Career Award for faculty, a number of student awards for best publication, best talk at CO3, best poster at CO3, and 2 travel awards. All the details and application procedures are here:

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December 19, 2024 at 9:42 PM
compcogsoc.bsky.social
The extended abstract submission deadline for #CO32025 is tomorrow, December 20, 2024. Use your CCS user account to submit your talk or poster abstract!

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December 19, 2024 at 9:42 PM
ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
We then looked for associations between hormone concentrations and performance on a battery of cognitive and behavioral tasks (conducted a few days after the samples were taken). #CanineScience #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
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Photos of the different behavioral and cognitive tasks. Retrieval of a thrown ball, step up and down laterality (paw-usage), point-following between one of two cups, novel marker gesture following between one of two cups, inhibitory control cylinder task, robotic cat novel object, unsolvable task puzzle persistence and human-oriented gaze, spatial working memory between one of two cups, human-oriented gaze during dog-directed speech and physical contact afterwards, visual discrimination of food on plates, auditory discrimination of food falling into metal bowls, odor discrimination of food in rubber toys, surprising events opening umbrella and metal sheet.
August 19, 2024 at 10:27 PM