The Comparative Cognition for Conservation Lab
Department of Psychology
Hunter College, City University of New York
New York, NY, USA
PI: Prof. Joshua Plotnik
The Comparative Cognition for Conservation Lab is a research group, led by Prof. Joshua Plotnik, focused on understanding the evolution of cognition across evolutionarily distant species. Our main focus is Asian elephants, and we work both in U.S. zoological institutions and in elephant range countries. We have had continuous, active field research projects running in Thailand since 2007. In addition, students in the CCC lab have worked with pangolins and pandas in related research aimed at understanding the applications of animal cognition to conservation and human-wildlife coexistence.
Our lab is based in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York. We accept students through the Animal Behavior and Conservation M.A. program at Hunter College, and the Cognitive and Comparative Psychology Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Our three main research focuses are:
