Rebeca Atencia's research while affiliated with Jane Goodall Institute and other places

... But as eloquently argued elsewhere [37], this term is conceptually uninformative, given the many ways in which it is applied and assessed. Of these approaches, reversal learning and serial-multiple back-to-back-reversal learning tasks are the most common experimental assays of behavioural flexibility (non-exhaustive examples of each assays in: bees [38,39]; birds [40,41]; fish [42,43]; frogs [44,45]; reptiles [10,46]; primates [47,48]; and rodents [49,50]). We have shown, however, at least for our grackles, faster reversal learning is governed primarily by pronounced reward-payoff sensitivity, so: firstly, these go-to experimental assays do not necessarily measure the unit they claim to measure (a point similarly highlighted in [51]); and secondly, formal models based on the false premise that variation in learning speed relates to variation in behavioural flexibility require reassessment [35,52]. ...

... Leiomyomas have been reported to occur in a wide range of species: human, bongo, rhinoceros, felids, canids, primates, and elephants, among others [16,32,[42][43][44][45]. The literature on neoplasia often does not include the unaffected population, making it difficult to estimate prevalence, but studies that do report these benign lesions show a wide variation in leiomyoma prevalence across mammalian species (Tables 2 and 3). ...

... While the nutritional status of sanctuary apes is far more stable than that of wild apes, most sanctuaries provide a diet that mimics that of wild apes, and apes can also forage within their enclosures (PASA, 2016). In this way, African sanctuary populations show patterns of physiological health and behavior that better mirrors wild populations than do captive populations outside of Africa (Cole et al., 2020;Rosati et al., 2013;. Sanctuary apes also come into direct contact or close proximity to human caretakers daily, and tourists visit many ape sanctuaries as well, providing opportunities for pathogen transmission in both directions (Gilardi et al., 2014;Glasser et al., 2021;Macfie & Williamson, 2010;Schaumburg et al., 2012). ...