As part of Phase 1 of our study, we're looking to collect 6 months or more of data from each of our participants to better assess both their learning abilities and how their use of the buttons might change over time once their vocabulary increases.

Our primary data gathering tools are button annotator updates (occasional) and progress reports (every two weeks).

Your answers to the questions in this progress report will provide key information toward specifying which linguistic and communicative phenomena to focus on in the development and analysis of the data that will be collected for Phase 2 (video recordings) and Phase 3 (experiments).

Ultimately, we're interested in how your learner(s) learn, how they communicate, and what their behavior tells us about their cognitive abilities and emotional life.

All of the information you provide will help us get one step closer to a richer and more meaningful understanding of animals’ minds, and all of your responses will be sent to you for your own records.

The data you share here will be shared with collaborating academic researchers at outside institutions and the broader public in a pseudo-anonymized format.

Thank you for participating!