Tales from the jungle - COCKATOOS with Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska
Studying animals in the wild comes with challenges. You have to find the animals and build a research "villa" before you even start the science. Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska took on this challenge to study wild Goffin's cockatoos on a small Indonesian island. Their exciting findings help us understand why some birds evolved be so clever. More on Mark and Berenika's research:https://goffinlabtanimbar.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berenika.mioduszewska/
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How to train your alligator - ALLIGATORS with Stephan Reber
Professional alligator wrangler and IG Nobel prize winning scientist Stephan Reber joins us to tell us all about alligators. What’s the difference between alligators and crocodiles? How (and why?) is helium used in alligator research? What can alligators tell us about dinosaurs? Follow Stephan on Bluesky: @stephanreber.bsky.socialMore on Stephan's work:https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/stephan-reber Link to Gharial father transporting babies: https://www.livescience.com/gharial-crocodile-papa-photo.html More on the IG Nobel award:https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-researcher-receives-ig-nobel-prize-alligator-helium-study
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Paws and claws - WOLVES & DOGS with Sarah Marshall-Pescini
What's the difference between wolves and dogs? How did we create the noble pug? Let's enter the world of domestication with Dr Sarah Marshall-Pescini. More about Sarah's work:https://sites.google.com/view/marshall-pescini/home Video of wolf cooperation:https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1709027114#supplementary-materials Sarah's latest research on carnivore urbanisation:https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/70/3/394/7666915?login=false
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Calls of the wild - BIOACOUSTICS with Maxime Garcia
How do animals produce sound? How important is size? How to they adapt their sounds for their environment? How do they interpret the sounds they hear?Welcome to the world of bioacoustics! Dr Maxime Garcia introduces us to the study of animal communication, using species from howler monkeys to woodpeckers as examples. In the words of Max - give it a look, give it a listen! More about Maxime:https://www.mpi.nl/news/animals-who-try-sound-bigger-are-good-learning-sounds https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxime-Garcia-5
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Gentle Giants - ELEPHANTS with Josh Plotnik
We've got elephants!In this episode with Dr Josh Plotnik we cover the cultural history of elephants in Thailand and ethical tourism. How to study an animal with a totally different sensory world. How do you smell an experiment? And we talk about how we can use cognition research to protect wild elephants.You can find out more about Josh's work here:https://hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/psychology/faculty-and-staff/profile/joshua-plotnik/ http://thinkelephants.org/
Join animal behavior experts Rachel Dale and Megan Lambert as they explore the incredible ways animals think, feel, and interact with their world. In each episode, they sit down with top researchers for a deep dive into the most intriguing aspects of animal life, blending cutting-edge science with captivating stories and surprising discoveries.
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