Rado Seminar - Julia Penndorf: PhD update talk
Radolfzell Seminar Series
- Datum: 01.10.2021
- Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
- Vortragende: Julia Penndorf
- Raum: Online
- Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Parrots represent an intriguing group in which to test hypotheses about
social cognition because they share many life-history traits with taxa
traditionally considered to display complex social cognition, such as
primates. Both groups have similar relative brain volumes, are
long-lived, have extended developmental periods, live in seemingly
complex social groups and show evidence for advanced cognition. However,
if comparisons between both groups are hampered because detailed
information regarding cognitive ecology and social structure is largely
lacking for parrot species. In my thesis, I aim to describe the social
ecology of my study species, the sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua
galerita), and explore what the latter can tell us about the species
social cognition.