Bastian wins. Again. 🙃 Aside from being adorable, this is effective “multimodal communication” aka pairing button presses with deliberate body language (like sitting calmly, maintaining eye contact, and waiting). In doing so, Bastian reduces ambiguity. Animal cognition researchers call “communication redundancy” (multimodal methods of communication) and it’s what the scientists studying our button animals look for what reviewing footage. Bastian’s lil “zoomies” confirms my suspicions that he in

How to do a multi-modal presentation