Team News

We welcomed the lab’s newest PhD student, Doğa Keçe, to Bloomington! Doğa is coming to our lab from Blikent University and is interested in research with dogs and across species! Her prior work has examined this question in humans (adaptive mate preferences and social information use in mate choice), acorn ants (tandem running and collective decision making), and dogs (overimitation).

Animal Behavior Conference - March 2026

Several members from the lab presented on their research at IU’s annual Animal Behavior Conference!

PhD student Emma Nelson gave a talk on different factors that influence the quality of interactions between zoo-housed chimpanzees and human visitors to the Indianapolis Zoo.

Two research assistants also gave poster presentations!

Isabel Brock gave a poster presentation on individual differences in space use and social behavior of zoo-housed chimpanzees.

Eloise Richardson gave a poster presentation on barriers to pet adoption and recommendations for preventing shelter dog overpopulation.