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New study lead by Sarah Brocard on how chimpanzees and humans perceive prosocial behaviours

Chimpanzees are similar to humans in how they perceive prosocial behaviours

This article discusses our recent findings exploring the evolutionary basis for human prosociality

The first ManyBirds collaborative study is out! Read more here.

This article explores our recent findings on apes' fast mapping abilities

My presentation on how we can improve the way we measure animal cognition is available on the Youtube ASAB Channel

I spoke in a podcast for Fun Kids Science Weekly about comparative behavioural and cognitive research

Article in The Conversation about our latest comparative research with apes. Our work is also featured on Swiss radio RTS and in numerous media outlets globally, and I spoke to the University of Hull about our research for social media.

Documentary on the SRF featuring our comparative research on event cognition and the origins of language

Podcast about our research on the origins of language with great apes at Basel Zoo (in German)

I contributed to an article in Science&Vie on animal personality

Our eye tracking research assessing how apes process event scenarios is featured in UZH magazine

Our cognitive research with the apes at Basel Zoo - including touchscreen and eyetracking studies - is featured on Basel Zoo's blog

Our eye tracking research with gorillas in Basel Zoo has been featured in a Swiss documentary about gorillas.

Article on assessing chimpanzee facial Width-to-Height ratio links to dominance, in the HBES newsletter