Temporal Cognition in Apes In humans, at least some of our ability to coordinate our actions with the timing of events in our world is due to our capacities for temporal cognition. However, controversy arises when we turn ou...

“Temporal Cognition in Apes” (co-authored with Gerardo Viera), is now out in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition #Philosophy

#nakedmolerat #laterality #comparativecognition #animalbehaviour

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Cognition Villanova University invites applications for a Mendel Science Experience Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, in the area of comparative cognition/animal...

📣 New #Postdoc position in #ComparativeCognition with Dr. Suzanne Gray at Villanova University, USA. If interested in research topics such as #Wildlife monitoring, #Field observations of #AnimalBehavior, or #Sustainable #HumanAnimal coexistence, apply here: jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33765 🧪

This work will inform further studies on the genetic bases of these traits, and potentially breeding and training strategies at Canine Companions.

Further work is needed to compare other populations and species!

#WorkingDogs #ComparativeCognition #BehavioralBiology

ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition - Animal Cognition Animal Cognition - Fishes are among the oldest and most diverse groups of vertebrates, encompassing a vast array of species that differ in morphology, ecology, and behavior. While such diversity...

doi.org/10.1007/s100...
#SPEetologia

#FishCognition #ComparativeCognition #BigTeamScience #ManyFishes #BehaviouralEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #OpenScience #VertebrateEvolution

Studying very different species helps us understand what’s shared and what’s unique in how minds work.
Crocodiles offer a window into how cognition evolves across vertebrates.
www.instagram.com/p/DT8mWBICFF...
#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #ComparativeCognition

Open Webinar: What's the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? As part of our open science event series, we are excited to launch registration for our upcoming webinar: What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? 📅 Date & time: January 27, 11:00 a...

Check out this webinar from ManyManys!
What's the use of preregistration for Big Team Science?
January 27, 11:00 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. (ET) on Zoom🎤 Speaker: Daniël Lakens #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

More info. here: manymanys.github.io/2026-01-12-p...

My hope is that CORVIDATA can support:
• large-scale comparative analyses
• theory-driven tests of ecological & social hypotheses
• conservation-relevant trait-based approaches

The dataset is openly available, and intended as a starting point (4/4) #Corvids #ComparativeCognition #BehaviouralEcology

LESSONS FROM CROCODILE

🐊 We’re ancient, social, adaptable — not “primitive”.
Studying us helps scientists understand how minds evolve… including yours.

🧠 Evolution leaves clues. We carry them.
evocroproject.github.io

#EvoCro #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehaviour #EUFundedProject #HorizonEurope #MarieCurieActions

EvOCRO Project - Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles on Instagram: "🇬🇧 No, crocodiles are not “surviving dinosaurs.” They share a common ancestor, yes — but they followed their own evoluti... 6 likes, 0 comments - evocroproject on November 30, 2025: "🇬🇧 No, crocodiles are not “surviving dinosaurs.” They share a common ancestor, yes — but they followed their own evolutionary path. And that’...

Welcome to EvOCRO (Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles), the EU-funded project exploring how crocodiles learn and what their minds can teach us about evolution.
www.instagram.com/p/DRrbV3ACIv... #MarieCurieActions #ComparativeCognition #ConservationScience #ResearchEurope

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...

📣 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
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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

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...

'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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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..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

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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

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.

Interested in #comparativecognition? Keen to work with #dogs? Interested in applying for a Newton International Fellowship? Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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.

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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