Sarah Jacobson

Why Some Elephants Take More Risks Around People Than Others CUNY Graduate Center alumna Sarah Jacobson found that wild elephants closer to farms are more curious around and attracted to new objects — insights that may help reduce human-elephant conflict.

Elephants who live near people behave differently.
Alumna @sarahljacobson.bsky.social and Prof. Joshua Plotnik reveal that curiosity may be key to understanding — and reducing — human-elephant conflict www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-som...

YouTube video by 60 Minutes Thai Elephants | Sunday on 60 Minutes

Tune in to 60 minutes on Sunday to learn more about The Comparative Cognition for Conservation lab's work to apply cognition and behavior research to help reduce human-elephant conflict!
youtu.be/BMSFnNMulQQ?...

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Great idea @marthaharbison.bsky.social ! Haha

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Can These Ex-Hollywood Chimps Find a Place Among the Apes? Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.

Honored to have worked with some of these chimps and their amazing team of caretakers. This is a good read about the many challenges chimpanzees face after being used for entertainment. And they cited my paper about the long-term effects of being raised by humans!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/s...

I wrote this for what feels like a different world, but also it’s clear we need to be better at communicating science.

IMO, we often put “scicomm” on a pedestal and overcomplicate it. A trip to my mechanic highlighted that for me, and I wrote about it: sustainability.colostate.edu/humannature/...