Topic: Field experiments

Join the Cotton Crop Agronomy Team for a 14-month full-time research assistant appointment. Support field and greenhouse experiments, seed preparation, harvests, sample processing and fibre-quality testing while completing a Certificate III in Agriculture. Training includes six one-week periods at Tocal College, with direct costs funded by CSIRO. Apply online with a CV and cover letter of up to two pages by 14 October at 11 p.m. AEDT.

I will present field experiments on vervet monkeys testing physical and social cognition, with a focus on social learning. The understanding of the emergence of cultural behaviours in animals has advanced significantly with contributions from complementary approaches: natural observations and controlled field experiments. Experiments with wild vervet monkeys highlight that monkeys are selective about ‘who’ they learn from socially and that they will abandon personal foraging preferences in favour of group norms new to them. The reported findings highlight the feasibility to study cognition und