Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?

Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!

And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!

Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviour Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh

Check out our new paper on logical reasoning in chimpanzees, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social!!

Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviour Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh

New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

New theme issue of #PhilTransB: The evolution of collective intelligence. Read #OA: buff.ly/f0gWUxH

Intelligent agents can still take irrational actions and, sometimes, groups of animals are better at making good decisions than their constituent individuals.

Read the latest article from the TWCF-funded project, “Rationality and Reason beyond the Individual“ project below.

Thank you to my coauthors @plewin.bsky.social, @richardpmann.bsky.social, @chriskrupenye.bsky.social & @dorabiro.bsky.social and to @templetonworld.bsky.social for making this work possible!

This highlights how collective intelligence - better decision-making in larger groups - can emerge through better memory of learned solutions across group members!

Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk

We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!

Does being in a collective buffer against individual forgetting, when it comes to navigation?

New paper by Joe Morford: we find that collectives of homing pigeons remember their routes better than individuals

@dorabiro.bsky.social @richardpmann.bsky.social

Thanks to @templetonworld.bsky.social !

Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

Collective wisdom emerges in pigeons through forgetting randomly-different information over time doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

You’ve probably heard of collective intelligence but what about collective memory? 🧠🐘

New paper in press, led by Joe Morford! We investigated whether collective decision making in pigeons can rescue long-term memory of learned homing routes 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...