Lecturer in Animal Psychology
The research of Dr Maria Tello-Ramos focuses on understanding how animals, mostly birds, but also bees, make decisions based on the information they can gather, and which cognitive abilities might support those decisions. How does the environment shape what types of information animals learn, remember, and ultimately use to solve everyday problems? How do these abilities vary between species? To study cognition in wild animals, she uses two ecologically relevant behaviours: foraging and building. Both behaviours present numerous opportunities to study learning and memory of different types of cues in ecologically relevant contexts.
Animal behaviour, animal cognition, comparative cognition of pollinators, foraging behaviour, time-place learning, social learning, animal cultures, building in animals, birds, bees
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
John Templeton Foundation
£17,882.00
1 December 2024
Ongoing
Psychology
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