Typical human adults recognize numerous individuals from their faces accurately, rapidly
and automatically, reaching a level of expertise at individual face recognition that is …

Highlights•Cognitive research run in zoos is topically representative of the field
generally.•Most zoo research is with primates, but there is little work with other species.•Zoos …

In zoos, primates experience markedly different interactions with familiar humans, such as
the zookeepers who care for them, compared with those with unfamiliar humans, such as the …

Although growing neural evidence suggests that human and nonhuman primates share a
similar face-processing mechanism, evidence from behavioural research has been mixed. If …

Humans and several other species of animals have demonstrated the ability to use
familiarity to recognize that they have seen images before. In prior experiments, orangutans …

The ability to recognize individuals is a critical skill acquired early in life for group living
species. In primates, individual recognition occurs predominantly through face …

A goal of the comparative approach is to test a variety of species on the same task. Here, we
examined whether the factors that helped capuchin monkeys improve their performance in a …

Cognitive enrichment for captive animals is the idea that cognitive stimulation can improve
animal welfare. In zoos, cognitive enrichment not only helps the animals themselves but also …

To study individual recognition in animals, discrimination tasks are often conducted by
presenting 2D images of real conspecifics. However, animals may discriminate the images …

Spontaneous looking preferences were assessed in six zoo-housed orangutans.
Orangutans were presented with two photographs simultaneously on two identical laptop …