Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of intelligence have focused their
attention on social primates, whereas birds tend to be used as models of associative …

Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing
environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other species are thriving in …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Les animaux ont bien changé au cours des dernières années. Les babouins mâles qui
semblaient tellement préoccupés de hiérarchie et de compétition nous disent à présent que …

Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate,
in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical …

Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea
and New Caledonian crows are often singled out as being exceptionally sophisticated in …

In serial reversal learning, subjects learn to respond differentially to 2 stimuli. When the task
is fully acquired, reward contingencies are reversed, requiring the subject to relearn the …

Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range
of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of …

The ability to act on information flexibly is one of the cornerstones of intelligent behavior. As
particularly informative example, tool-oriented behavior has been investigated to determine …

Recent work has shown that captive rooks, like chimpanzees and other primates, develop
cooperative alliances with their conspecifics. Furthermore, the pressures hypothesized to …