Elephants who live near people behave differently. Alumna @sarahljacobson.bsky.social and Prof. Joshua Plotnik reveal that curiosity may be key to understanding — and reducing — human-elephant conflict www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-som...

Tune in to 60 minutes on Sunday to learn more about The Comparative Cognition for Conservation lab's work to apply cognition and behavior research to help reduce human-elephant conflict! youtu.be/BMSFnNMulQQ?...

Gm from my cat

Honored to have worked with some of these chimps and their amazing team of caretakers. This is a good read about the many challenges chimpanzees face after being used for entertainment. And they cited my paper about the long-term effects of being raised by humans! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/s...

I wrote this for what feels like a different world, but also it’s clear we need to be better at communicating science. IMO, we often put “scicomm” on a pedestal and overcomplicate it. A trip to my mechanic highlighted that for me, and I wrote about it: sustainability.colostate.edu/humannature/...