Kea

(Haidlhof, Austria)

Since my return from a sabbatical (at the NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 2011-2012), I have had neither resources nor an institutional base for empirical research in France. Thanks to my Austrian colleagues and a number of master students from Strasbourg, I could nevertheless test a few ideas about cooperation with the kea housed in the Haidlhof Research Station, near Bad Vöslau in Austria.

SI video 3.mp4

4 kea coordinate to open a box with food

1 of 3 videos published onlinewith Schwing et al 2021 in Learning & Behavior

Publications:

Schwing, R., Meaux, E., Piseddu, A., Huber, L. & Noë, R. 2021. Kea, Nestor notabilis, achieve cooperation in dyads, triads and tetrads when dominants show restraint. Learning & Behavior (published online). open access 

Schwing, R., Reuillon, L., Conrad, M., Noë, R. & Huber, L. 2020. Paying attention pays off: kea improve in loose-string cooperation by attending to partner. Ethology 126:246–256. open access (in: Special Issue: Studying the Evolution of Cooperation and Prosociality in Birds) 

Schwing R., Jocteur E., Wein, A., Noë, R. & Massen, J. J.M. 2016. Kea cooperate better with sharing affiliates. Animal Cognition 19(6), 1093-1102 open access

kea

Ludwig Huber

Gyula Gajdon

Raoul Schwing

(photos: R. Noë)

The Haidlhof Research Station is a research facility run by COGBIO, the Department of Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna and the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

My master students from Strasbourg:


Kea (Nestor notabilis) are large parrots from New Zealand's South Island

NB 'kea' is is used for both the singular and the plural

Petra Pesak MSc

CogBio

Keeping me, my students (and many others) happy .....


getting my socks perforated by feathered apes

last update: 4 FEB 2021