Hoi-Lam Jim

@hljim.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @ Kyoto University 🌳 https://ifohs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/member/hoi-lam-jim-2 Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids 🐘🐾 One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕 🇬🇧🇭🇰

I study the behaviour and cognition of group-living cooperative species to understand the evolutionary origins of human social behaviour, focusing on dogs and Asian elephants because both can cooperate with humans and members of their own species. Comparing different species helps uncover whether aspects of social cognition are shared or uniquely human. One example is reputation formation: human children judge others by observing their interactions, and I tested this in dogs and elephants (as depicted in the illustration).