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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Claudio Tennie Date of Birth: 24 March 1976 Nationality: German Address: Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Psychology Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany PUBLICATIONS Published or accepted: Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Push or pull: emulation versus imitation in great apes and human children. Ethology, 112, 1159-1169. Find your personal copy here. Tennie, C.; Hedwig, D.; Call J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas. American Journal of Primatology. 70, 584-93. Find your personal copy here. Tennie, C.; Gilby, I. & Mundry, R. (2009). *The meat-scrap hypothesis: small quantities of meat may promote cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).* Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63, 421-431. Find your personal copy directly on the journal page, since this paper is open access. Tennie, C.; Tempelmann, S.; Glabsch, E.; Bräuer, J.; Kaminski, J. & Call, J. (2009). Dogs (Canis familiaris) fail to copy intransitive actions in third party contextual imitation tasks. Animal Behaviour. 77, 1491-1499. Find your personal copy here. Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2009). *Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture.* Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences. 364, 2405-2415. Find your personal copy here. Call, J. & Tennie, C. (2009). Animal culture: chimpanzee table manners? Current Biology. 19, R981-983. Find your personal copy here. Tennie, C. & Hedwig, D. (2009). How latent solution experiments can help to study differences between human culture and primate traditions. Primatology: Theories, Methods and Research. Ed.: E. Potocki and J. Krasiński. New York, Nova Publishers. Yoon, J. & Tennie, C. (2010). Contagious yawning: a reflection of empathy, mimicry, or contagion? Animal Behaviour. *(equal contributions) Submitted:* Tennie, C.; Greve, K.; Gretsche, H. & Call, J. *Multiple social learning tasks for human children and* *great apes. Hanus, D.; Mendes, N.; Tennie, C.* & Call., J. *The floating peanut task: a comparison between great apes and human children.* Acerbi, A.; Tennie, C. & Nunn, C. Modeling social learning mechanisms in constrained search spaces Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task. In preparation: Tennie, C.* & Hribar, A.* Investigating observational learning of tool-use in South African fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus). * Equal contribution Hribar, A.; Kilian, A. & Tennie, C. *Investigating observational learning of tool-use in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)* Tennie, C., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. *The bum-board experiment.* Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. *An artificial fruit with a ghost control for all species of great apes.* Non-peer-reviewed work: Bräuer, J.; Kalbitz, J.; Große, K.; Tennie, C. & Call, J. *A cost-benefit analysis of 7 enrichment devices for great apes.* Acerbi, A.; Gretscher, H.; Tennie, C. A cybernut to crack. an agent based model of actions copiers and results copiers. COMMUNICATIONS Posters 2003 Aberystwyth Second International Symposium onImitation in Animals and Artifacts Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Push or pull revisited: How do great apes perform?" 2003 Leipzig GfP 2003 Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Do great apes benefit from a demonstrator in a simple social learning task?" 2004 Turino IPS 2004 Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Imitation vs. emulation in great apes" 2008 Leipzig Fachbeirat MPI EVAN Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Do gorillas acquire nettle feeding techniques via program-level-imitation (PLI)?" 2009 St. Andrews EHBEA 2009 Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Great ape traditions & zones of latent solutions" Talks 2005 St. Andrews Animal learning conference Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "The ghosts in the fruits." 2007 Prague 2nd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology (EFP). Prague. Tennie & Call: "Social learning of tool-making in great apes and human children: the loop study." 2006 Entebbe IPS 2006 Tennie, Hedwig, Call & Tomasello: "Nettle eating in mountain gorillas - revisited." 2008 Vienna EDICI workshop Tennie & Call: "Cumulative culture: task difficulty & action copying" 2008 Edinburgh IPS 2008 Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "An Improved study on action/gesture copying in chimpanzees" 2005 Budapest Budapest summer school. CEU Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "The battery of social learning tasks". Summer school: "Cultural learning, imitation, and articraft understanding" 2006 Grünau Symposium der Ethologischen Gesellschaft Tennie, Call & Tomasello. “An experimental study on social learning of complex problem solving: the floating peanut task” Invited talks 2006 University of Marburg, biology department 2008 EDICI workshop on imitation 2009 Reputation management workshop, Arhus, Denmark "Reputation in apes" REVIEWER Animal Behaviour Animal Cognition Folia Primatologica Journal of Comparative Psychology Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Aquatic Mammals (ad hoc) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2002-2003 University of Leipzig: Teaching of undergraduate course "Evolutionäre Aspekte menschlichen Verhaltens" ("Evolution and Human Behaviour"). Co-taught with Tobias Grossmann 2003 - 2009 Co-supervision of several diploma students: Kathrin Greve (now RA at MPI EVA), Heinz Gretscher (now PhD-student at MPI EVA), Daniela Hedwig (now PhD-student at MPI EVA), Nadja Miosga (ongoing), Victoria Walter (ongoing) 2009 University of Magdeburg. Visiting lecturer: "Primate Communication" & "Observational learning". Course by Dr. Jochen Braun. POST-DIPLOMA EDUCATION 2009 ongoing MPI EVA Leipzig Post doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 2009 Dissertation "Human culture versus great ape traditions: Mechanisms of observational learning in human children and great apes" 2004-2009 MPI EVA Leipzig Zoo-labcoordinator at the Wolfgang-Köhler Primate Research Centre as well as: PhD-student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology also: Participation and presentation at CEU summer school: "Cultural Learning, Imitation, and Articraft Understanding: A Comparative Perspective" July 4 - 15, 2005. Budapest, Hungary. 2003-2004 MPI EVA Leipzig Research Assistant 2002-2003 University of Bielefeld / MPI EVA Leipzig Diploma thesis on social learning in great apes. 1999-2002 University of Bielefeld Courses in behavioural ecology as well as in social psychology, evolutionary psychology, ecology, communication and biometrics 1998-1999 University of Edinburgh Second and third year courses in ecology, ethology, biometrics and philosophy of science 1996-1998 Philipps University of Marburg: Study of biology until In-between exam (“Vordiplom”)

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