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Ava Cahill

@avacahill.bsky.social
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Psychology PhD student @jhu.edu Evolution of cognition & theory of mind in apes 🦧 and dogs 🐕 she/they avacahill.github.io

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Ava Cahill @avacahill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Very excited to share that my first paper has been published in Animal Behaviour! In this paper from my undergraduate institution, my colleagues and I assessed how domestic dogs and Australian dingoes respond to communicative cues. (1/2) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How does domestication shape responses to communicative cues? Evidence from a novel marker task in dogs and dingoes
It has been hypothesized that domestic dogs, Canis familiaris, are unusually flexible in their capacity to follow human communicative cues due to dome…
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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Andddddd that's a wrap on #CO32026! A big thank you to all the presenters, both in talks and posters, to everyone who travelled to Montréal, and, of course, to the amazing organizers who made this conference such a success. We are already looking forward to #CO32027! Can't wait to see you there!
Group picture of the attendees of the comparative cognition conference on a stage with two background screens lit up with QR codes behind
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Elizabeth Warren @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
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Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviour
Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh
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