ReviewEvolutionary anthropology2019
What animals do not do or fail to find: A novel observational approach for studying cognition in the wild.
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- Cognitive performance is linked to fitness in a wild primate.Science advances · 2023Article
- Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- The Benefits and Challenges of Conducting Primate Research in Different Settings.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Mild movement sequence repetition in five primate species and evidence for a taxonomic divide in cognitive mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Chimpanzees (Science advances · 2022Article
- Cognitive maps in the wild: revealing the use of metric information in black howler monkey route navigation.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Macaque species with varying social tolerance show no differences in understanding what other agents perceive.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- Mandrills learn two-day time intervals in a naturalistic foraging situation.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- Replications, Comparisons, Sampling and the Problem of Representativeness in Animal Cognition Research.Animal behavior and cognition · 2021Article
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- Albatrosses can memorize locations of predictable fishing boats but favour natural foraging.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not "One Cognition".Journal of Intelligence · 2020Review
- The social life of Norway rats (eLife · 2020Review
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Abstract
To understand how our brain evolved and what it is for, we are in urgent need of knowledge about the cognitive skills of a large variety of animal species and individuals, and their relationships to rapidly disappearing social and ecological conditions. But how do we obtain this knowledge? Studying cognition in the wild is a challenge. Field researchers (and their study subjects) face many factors that can easily interfere with their variables of interest. Although field studies of cognition present unique challenges, they are still invaluable for understanding the evolutionary drivers of cognition. In this review, I discuss the advantages and urgency of field-based studies on animal cognition and introduce a novel observational approach for field research that is guided by three questions: (a) what do animals fail to find?, (b) what do they not do?, and (c) what do they only do when certain conditions are met? My goal is to provide guidance to future field researchers examining primate cognition.
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