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Dr Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos

Lecturer in Animal Psychology

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Psychology and Social Work

Qualifications

  • BSc (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  • MSc (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of St Andrews)

Summary

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.

Research interests

Animal behaviour, animal cognition, comparative cognition of pollinators, foraging behaviour, time-place learning, social learning, animal cultures, building in animals, birds, bees

Lead investigator

Project

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Grant

Started

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Project

Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction

Funder

John Templeton Foundation

Grant

£17,882.00

Started

1 December 2024

Status

Ongoing

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