the rational animal: in search of complex cognition in non-human animals

Ludwig Huber is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, as well as of the Natural Science Foundations of Animal Ethics and Human-Animal Interactions at the Messerli Research Institute, an interdisciplinary institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, and the University of Vienna. His research focuses on animal cognition in a broad, comparative manner, including such diverse species as humans, marmosets, dogs, kea, cockatoos, pigeons, tortoises, lizards, poison frogs and archer fish. He has (co-)authored ca. 200 research articles, 40 book chapters and 3 books about these topics (including, as co-editor, The Evolution of Cognition, MIT Press, 2000).