We quantify cognitive abilities of individual wild animals in urban spaces and determine how cognition may be enabling these individuals to utilize novel resources in urban environments. We also examine the role of animal cognition in human-wildlife conflict.

We study how urbanization alters the sociality of urban carnivores. Specifically, we examine whether clumped and abundant anthropogenic resources alter social network structure, interspecific interactions, and social tolerance of urban carnivores.

There can be large differences in how habitable an urban space is for wildlife across different neighborhoods in the same city. We examine how features of an urban space affect the ecology, cognition, and behavior of urban wildlife.

Urban wildlife consume more human food, are exposed to new and different diseases, and can experience a lot of stress. We examine the impacts of urbanization on wildlife health and the connections between health, cognition, and behavior.