The four-year-old African Grey parrot is a Guinness World Record holder. “He identified 12 things in three minutes, and ...

That is, they take a shortcut, suggesting that they possess a cognitive map of their territory (Menzel et al. 2005). The day-night cycle also plays a key role in animal behavior. Some species are ...

Macaques continued to search for answers to an unsolvable laboratory task, seemingly refusing to believe that the correct answers were random and inconsistent. In Chapter 1, “The Science of Animal ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

their knowledge and expertise can also shape the future of cognitive enrichment. This paper describes the motive, means, and opportunity to do so. Taxon-specific summaries of animal cognition ...

Professor Gazes teaches in the Department of Psychology and the Animal Behavior Program. My research program focuses on discovering what evolutionary pressures may have led to the development of ...