Associate Professor and Director for the Animal Behavior and Conservation MA Program. Dr. Plotnik studies the evolution of cognition across species-with a particular interest in Asian elephants-to determine how similarities in physical and social intelligence evolve in …

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. - President and Executive Director Josh founded TEI in 2011 with an initial meeting with a NYC middle school principal, a friend of his since childhood. Currently, Josh is associate professor of psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and directs both the comparative cognition for conservation lab and ...

Mar 12, 2025 · Dr. Plotnik studies the evolution of cognition across species, with a particular interest in how similarities in physical and social intelligence evolve in evolutionarily distant taxa. Dr. Plotnik works with a number of species, with a particular interest in the Asian elephant.

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. is the lab’s principal investigator. He is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied the intelligence of elephants since 2005. Recently, Josh has been working in Thailand to understand how research on animal thinking can be applied directly to the mitigation of human/elephant conflict.

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. Josh founded TEI in 2011 with an initial meeting with a NYC middle school principal, a friend of his since childhood. Currently, Josh is associate professor of psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and directs both the comparative cognition for conservation lab and the animal behavior and conservation ...

Exclusion in corvids: the performance of food-caching Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius). JM Plotnik, JJ Pokorny, T Keratimanochaya, C Webb, HF Beronja, ... H Downey, T Amano, M Cadotte, CN...

Josh Plotnik is a comparative cognition researcher interested in linking behaviour and conservation by applying the study of animal behaviour to HWC. He is a faculty member at Hunter College, the City University of New York, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, and the founder of the non-profit charity Think Elephants International.

Joshua Plotnik is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied elephant cognition and conservation in Thailand since 2007. Recently, Josh has been working with students and colleagues in Thailand and Myanmar to understand how research on animal behavior and cognition can be applied directly to the mitigation ...