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Tag: Cognitive Biology

Interview & Opinion

19 June 2020

Why does the Goffin’s cockatoo use a hook?

Interview: Astrid Kuffner

Behavioural researcher and START Award winner Alice Auersperg investigates the behaviour and ecology of the Goffin’s cockatoo on the Indonesian Moluccas and compares the bird with close relatives. Exhibiting flexibility and dexterity in using tools similar to higher primates, this bird could corroborate theories that were established for the point when humans (and great apes) […] Continue reading “Why does the Goffin’s cockatoo use a hook?”

On the road

13 December 2019

The cockatoos of the forgotten islands

By Mark O'Hara

The Goffin cockatoos are an amazingly clever parrot species. Behaviorist Mark O’Hara wants to find out why. In order to better understand how the animals tick, the Schrödinger scholar has set off for Indonesia. Continue reading “The cockatoos of the forgotten islands”

Projects

22 January 2018

Grooving together for more cohesion

Music can have the effect of a “pacer” promoting coordinated, prosocial behaviour in human beings. Under a Lise-Meitner grant from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the neurobiologist Dan Bowling is looking for evidence of the power of music. He wants to know, for instance, how music affects our bodies and whether singing in a choir […] Continue reading “Grooving together for more cohesion”

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