The @ManyDogs paper on point-following is now available: https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1353

🐕 455 dogs, 20 research sites

📏 Object choice task with
(1) Ostensive condition (pointing after making eye-contact and saying dog's name)
2) Non-ostensive condition

📊 Point-following in both conditions was above chance, but there was no condition difference

📊 Dogs followed contralateral, momentary pointing at lower rates than has been previously reported

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition
#Cognition
#Dogs

🇨🇦 Meanwhile in Canada...

Seriously, this is happening in my yard here in Ontario.

(Photo by my partner Rodney)
#AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition
#Frogs

The @behaviour2023 conference comes to an end. I'm very happy I had the opportunity to present my work about cognitive control in archosaurs🦖 , for the first time with a talk in person.😀
Thanks to Berenika Mioduszewska for the picture.

#Behaviour2023
#Bielefeld
#AnimalCognition
#AnimalBehaviour

Do you want to find more #AnimalBehavior folks?
Check this new list and sign up to be found -> https://animalbehaviour.live/mastodon/
#AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour2023 @behaviour2023 #AnimalCognition #Ethology

Boosting everything I see on #Behaviour2023 ; bring it on! Much enjoying living the conference vicariously, enjoy the meeting to those in Bielefeld! @behaviour2023 #AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehaviour #TeamChicken

Are you prepping a course on #AnimalCognition #Learning #Memory #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour ?

A couple of years ago, we wrote a paper on teaching these topics and included a 60 page (!) resource with links to videos, podcasts, and activities, organized by topic, on OSF. I mention it here in case it's helpful to you!

Resources for teaching: https://osf.io/mbspr/

The open access paper: https://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/vol15_kuhlmeier_karasewich_olmstead/

2🪡 The reason these children want their livestock returned as pets is because they had not been fully indoctrinated in the dominion of animals. It’s only because we’re (falsely) told that eating meat is our inherent right that we sever the connection between the animals we care for and the ones we eat. And it is essential for humans who work in the meat industry to see some animals as food, not as individual creatures with feelings, preferences, and a personality.

#AnimalCognition #Vegan

I appreciate the sentiment of #CompassionateSlaughter, but I still find the argument oxymoronic. To call all life sacred (as one of the photos in the article depicts) and then choose to end the life of other animals for enjoyment -- not for survival -- feels like having one's cake, er... lobster tail, and eating it, too.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/lobsters-likely-feel-pain-should-we-get-them-high-before-eating-them

#Biology #Neuroscience #Pain #Suffering #AnimalCognition #AnimalRights #Compassion #Vegan #Animals #HumansAreAnimals

Animal intelligence is a common standard used to justify meat-eating. This argument stacks the deck against farmed animals. Humans always win. Mental might makes right.

Animal sociability is a more level playing field. The animals we choose to kill and eat show love to each other and form complex social groups just like we do. We're on the same level as the animals when it comes to what makes life worth living: family, friendship, love, inclusion, safety, acceptance.

#vegan #veganism #meat #meateaters #animals #animalRights #animalIntelligence #animalCognition

A few years back, my partner Rodney built a ledge on the side of our house for robins to nest (it was better than the propane fireplace exhaust box!). Since then, starting every spring there is a series of about 3-4 broods.

Here's Mrs. Robinson, taking a break from sitting on her eggs. Mr. Robinson is always nearby, alarm calling if I get too close.

#Birds #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalCognition

The abstract submission deadline for Behaviour 2023 (Bielefeld, Germany) is April 30th.

(And kudos to the artist who made the logo!)

https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/veranstaltungen/behaviour2023/

#AnimalBehaviour
#AnimalBehavior
#AnimalCognition
#Birds

While looking through my husband's amazing photography for a photo for the textbook, I was reminded of this one of a mute swan. They are so impressive and majestic, but they are not native to North America and bully the local geese and ducks here on Lake Ontario.

#AnimalBehaviour
#AnimalBehavior
#AnimalCognition
#ComparativeCognition
#AnimalPhotography
#Birds

Interested in #BigTeamScience? How about #Dogs? @ManyDogs has an #OpenAccess paper out now.

ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach
to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition
https://tinyurl.com/394tzans

What are the opportunities and challenges of multi-site projects?

ManyDogs aims to study breed & individual differences and the impact of culture on behavior, with important implications for dog-human interaction & welfare.

#AnimalCognition
#Cognition
#AnimalBehavior

ManyDogs (@ManyDogs) is an international consortium of researchers interested in #canine science.

We are soliciting proposals for our next project. Do you have ideas?

Check out the info below and see: bit.ly/416TXN6

#AnimalCognition #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #CognitiveDevelopment #Cognition #DevelopmentalPsychology

Learning & Behavior has a special issue in honor of Sarah (Sally) Boysen, my former graduate supervisor.

#OpenAccess for now: https://link.springer.com/journal/13420/volumes-and-issues/51-1

Topics include:

- Olfactory memory 🐕 (Davila et al)

- Non-matching-to-sample 🐀 (Bruce et al)

- Point following 🐵 🐕 🐺 (McCreary et al) <--my group!

- Reverse-reward contingencies 🐵 (Beran)

- Tool use 🦧 (Shumaker & Martin)

- Sequential behavior 🐦 (Cook et al)

#AnimalCognition #AnimalBehaviour
#AnimalBehavior
#Cognition
#Learning

ICYMI: Two new bee social learning papers have come out.

Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1702

Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002019

#AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition #CognitiveDevelopment

New research finds that #cockatoos plan ahead and transport multiple tools. #AnimalCognition https://phys.org/news/2023-02-cockatoos-multiple-tools-fish-cashews.html

Looking for a PhD position in animal cognition?
You can apply to our lab! We have two paid positions!

We work with ravens, emus, alligators and more! 🐦 🐊

One in cognitive science: https://t.co/Qr6tBPuOrh

One on the cognitive evolution of reptiles, birds, and dinosaurs🦕 🦖 : https://t.co/RBApAc72QY

(You can apply to both. 😉 )

Deadline for applications is 15th of February.

#PhD
#CognitiveScience
#AnimalCognition
#AnimalBehaviour
#Evolution
#Birds
#Crocodylians
#Dinosaurs

Great talk from Ed Wasserman today on the analogical abilities of different animal species. Prompted a very interesting discussion on how same/different tasks can be solved in different ways. E.g., comprehending differences in perceptual entropy vs conceptual understanding of same/different.

Recording available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p7JL3FTdkw

Seminar schedule: http://www.analogicalminds.com

@cognition @cogsci @psychology #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition

Dr. Nussbaum’s research supports the lyrics I wrote for this little ditty I composed for 2022’s #WorldVeganDay.

https://vimeo.com/773487162

#GoVegan #AnimalRights #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #AnimalCognition