Vlad Demartsev

Vlad Demartsev

Feb 08, 2019

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Project launch!

Hi all,

I am super exited about the launch of this campaign. Looking forward for any input and will be happy to answer any questions about the research or meerkats in general. In the following weeks I will regularly post some fun meerkat facts, more details about the project and the research site and off course more meerkat photos. So stay tuned!


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About This Project

Humans plan their speech ahead of time, but can animals do the same? What happens when an animal is ready to vocalize, but gets interrupted? We will examine whether meerkats prepare for calling, and whether they ever change their minds about it at the very last moment. We hypothesize that changes in breathing patterns can be used to detect and measure call intention. Showing these phenomena in animals would suggest that animal calls are highly intentional and are under complex cognitive control.

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