Anthropogenic activities are causing a steep decline of wildlife populations. Increased
inbreeding in shrinking populations can substantially curb individual fitness and population …

Individuals in the process of encountering a novel environment face several new selective
pressures that can lead to changes in phenotypes, which provides an exciting opportunity to …

Abstract Open Science Partnerships (OSPs) are gaining attention as alternatives to
university–industry collaborations with restrictive IPR and knowledge sharing policies. OSPs …

In this book, the major and at the same time most difficult questions of comparative cognition
research-here called the sextet of animal intelligence-are presented using good examples …

In this book, I have discussed and proposed answers to (most of) the big and, at the same
time, most difficult questions in comparative cognitive research. Starting with the question of …

The ManyDogs 1 study is the first multi-site collaborative study of dogs' responses to human
pointing. It addressed whether dogs perceive the gesture as socially communicative and are …

Whether animals can be rational and whether they are conscious are among the most
exciting and controversial questions in biology and comparative psychology [1]. And …

It is now a textbook fact that our understanding of humans has been hampered by an
extremely narrow focus on a few populations, specially WEIRD societies endowed with a …