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Jennifer M Vonk
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Jennifer Vonk is a comparative/cognitive psychologist with primary research interests in two overlapping areas: (1) animal cognition, and (2) cognitive development. The underlying goal of her work is to examine cognitive continuities and discontinuities between humans and both closely and distantly related species.
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Has human culture "shaped" the shape bias: Comparisons with other apes
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Young children do not require perceptual-motor feedback to solve Aesop’s Fable tasks
African penguins follow the gaze direction of conspecifics
Experience-based human perception of facial expressions in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)
Spotted hyaena space use in relation to human infrastructure inside a protected area
Judgement bias in goats (Capra hircus): investigating the effects of human grooming
Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other behaviors
Behavioral flexibility and problem solving in an invasive bird
Western scrub-jays do not appear to attend to functionality in Aesop’s Fable experiments
Bust economics: foragers choose high quality habitats in lean times
Extra-pair paternity in the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda
Functional flexibility in wild bonobo vocal behaviour
Photos provide information on age, but not kinship, of Andean bear
Individual consistency in the behaviors of newly-settled reef fish
Orangutans modify facial displays depending on recipient attention
The socio-matrix reloaded: from hierarchy to dominance profile in wild lemurs
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When given the opportunity, chimpanzees maximize personal gain rather than “level the playing field”