Comparative Cognition Society

Show Your Comparative Cognition Love!🦝♥️ Order your CCS merchandise in our online shop. We have water bottles, hats, mugs & more. We still have the CO3 2025 shirts in honor of Suzanne MacDonald, ft. orangutans & raccoons & we'll make sporadic announcements as new items are added

Obituary of Tammy McKenzie | Brockie Donovan Funeral & Cremation Services To view the Celebration of Tammy's Life, please CLICK HERE. Tammy Laura Beth McKenzie Ph.D It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Tammy passed away the morning of April 19th, 2025 at the age ...

The Comparative Cognition Society mourns the passing of our friend, and colleague, Professor Tammy McKenzie, who died earlier this year at the age of 49. Tammy was a longstanding member of the Society and a frequent CO3 attendee. Tammy's obituary: brockiedonovan.com/tribute/deta...

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🚨New workshop “Behavior Across the Tree of Life: Theoretical & Methodological Challenges” hosted by Gianmaria Dani, Dr. Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda & Prof. Grant Ramsey at KU Leuven, Sept 26-27, 2025! More info: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps...

See most recent newsletter for full statement from our president.

CO3 2026 will be in Montréal! 🇨🇦
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!

🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

L&B Special Issue: Interview with Nicky Clayton Audio Intro Kosovicheva: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Now, here is your host, Laura Mickes. Intro to the interview with Professor Nicky Clayton Mickes: Nicky Clayton (pictured below) is a Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Clare College. She was elected…

L&B Special Issue: Interview w/ Nicky Clayton: https://bit.ly/4jhz2A2

Download the entire special issue for free until the end of May '25: https://bit.ly/3FpnQ5B

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Thankful to attend the @compcogsoc.bsky.social conference again this year with the SCO group! I always return to campus buzzing with inspiration and optimism, especially seeing how comparative cognition has embraced interdisciplinary research, new frontiers of cognition, and philosophy of the mind.

✨What an incredible CO3 we had this year #CO3_2025 ! Thank you to all joined us and contributed your insights and energy to the talks, posters, events and great discussions. It was a truly inspiring event. Until next time💙🏳️‍🌈🌍🤝

The banquet starts at 7:00 PM in Alvarado DE. Enjoy the meal and beverages from the cash bar while saying goodbyes to #CO3_2025 friends 🍻🌮🥗

We’re wrapping up #CO3_2025 with closing remarks at 5:15 PM before the Master Lecture begins at 5:30! Make sure to come for our research award honoree Suzanne MacDonald’s talk 🦝🦧🧪

Maria Botero gives her talk discussing the exemplary work of Suzanne MacDonald and how she has contributed to the field of Comparative Cognition! Such a great tribute to a true leader and role model in our field! #CO3_2025 🧪🦝🐘

Symposium in Honor of the Contributions of Suzanne MacDonald is starting soon! Join us for talks featuring A Tribute to Suzanne MacDonald, Dimensions of Mind Perception in Companion Animals, Human-Crow Relationships, Animal Cultures, & more! #CO3_2025 🧪🦧🐒🐦‍⬛

In the #Decision Making session David White tells us all about #cowbirds and whether they use social information to lay eggs in host nests. Juvenile females may choose already parasitized nests whereas adult females avoid them. 🪹🥚🪺 #CO3_2025

The #Attention & #Memory session is about to begin! Come join us for talks about Cognitive Effort & Working Memory in Rheus monkeys, Reversed Attentional Boost Effect in Pigeons, Sensory Modality & Visual Working Memory, & Long-term Memory in Dolphins #CO3_2025 🧪🐬🐒

Rebecca Westwick starts off the session presenting work on a #cognitive test battery with the #charismatic dung beetle 🪲💩#CO3_2025

The #Development Session starts at 12:00 PM. We will learn about #cognitive differences, #behavioral flexibility, #temperature preferences, #temperament, #cognitive decline, and changes in the #brain across development! 🪲🐠🐍🐒🐦🧠 #CO3_2025

Get your final bids in for the many great items in the silent #auction! Login here to take a look at the items and add your bids before 11:59 am comparativecognition... #CO3_2025

The Business Meeting starts off our last day of #CO3_2025 at 10:30am. All are welcome to attend and share ideas about the conference! 💡🧪

It’s the last day #CO3_2025!! Remember today is the last day to bid on the Silent Auction items, this closes at 11:59am! Also, please join us on the terrace lawn at approximately 11:40am for a group photo! Happy conferencing!

Good morning #CO3_2025! Come join us for a group visit to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History at 9:00am! A member of Team CO3 will lead a walking group from the hotel foyer for an approximate 10 minute walk. A reduced admission will be offered when showing your CO3 badge!

Our second Poster Session starts at 8pm! Come learn from our presenters about many species and topics of comparative cognition while enjoying a beverage from the cash bar! This is also a good time to bid in the Silent Auction. #CO3_2025

The Perspective Taking & Social Perception session is starting at 4:54pm! Join us for talks discussing What Monkeys Know About Knowledge, Limits of Primate Gaze-Following, Deceiving Bonobos, Perspective-taking in Chimps, Dominance in Bonobos, & more! #CO3_2025 🦧🦍🧪

Do dolphins understand cooperation and how do they coordinate it? Kelly Jaakkola shows us the strategies dolphins use to initiate and coordinate cooperation with partners 🐬 🧪 #CO3_2025

Come back after the snack break for the #Communication session starting at 4:02 PM. We will hear about aspects of communication in #dolphins, #apes, #chickadees, and #ChatGPT. #CO3_2025

Tanya Shoot presents her work discussing Cognition in Plants 🪴 🌱 suggesting that we should “move towards the idea of plants as active individuals, rather than passive factories”. What an interesting presentation! #CO3_2025 🧪

Honoured to receive this @compcogsoc.bsky.social award and incredibly grateful for our community's collaboration and support, thank you!

Join us for the Emerging Topics in Comparative Cognition session starting at 2:41pm! Talks will be discussing Higher & Lower Cognition, Radicle Embodied Cognition in Plants 🪴 and Spontaneous Cognition in Bumblebees 🐝 #CO3_2025

Julia @JuliaLSelf talking about conformity in nest-building zebra finches (n = 175 focal males!!) #CO3_2025. Her 1st conference talk is part of the Best Student Talk symposium.

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