Gisela Kaplan is Professor emeritus in Animal Behaviour at the University of New England, holds two PhDs, an hon.D. Science and is elected fellow of several learned societies (AOS,FRNS) and has received various awards for her ground-breaking research (Whitley Award and others). She is a prolific writer (23 books and more than 250 articles/essays published). For the past two decades, her research and writings have concentrated on cognition and social communication in songbirds and parrots and has advanced our knowledge of the cognitive and social complexity especially of Australian species.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Animal Behaviour
Animal Communication
Primates
Social Learning
Animal cognition
Brain Plasticity
Songbirds
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Short Biography
Gisela Kaplan is Professor emeritus in Animal Behaviour at the University of New England, holds two PhDs, an hon.D. Science and is elected fellow of several learned societies (AOS,FRNS) and has received various awards for her ground-breaking research (Whitley Award and others). She is a prolific writer (23 books and more than 250 articles/essays published). For the past two decades, her research and writings have concentrated on cognition and social communication in songbirds and parrots and has advanced our knowledge of the cognitive and social complexity especially of Australian species.