Welcome to the Comparative Cognition for Conservation (CCC) Lab, a research group in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York in New York City focused on understanding the evolution of cognition across species, with a particular interest in studying how behavior and cognition can impact wildlife’s ability to coexist with humans in a rapidly changing world.
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.
