ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
11 episodes
since Jan. 17, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Here's your intro to goat behaviour. What do goats understand about human behaviour? Goats vs sheep. The weirdness of goat eyes. How to make goats happy. How to avoid horns to the face and other tips for interacting with goats.
Links to Christian's work:
https://christiannawroth.wordpres…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 e…
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?
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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/ab…
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 woodp…
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 wi…
It's time to put ourselves in the hot seat and introduce you to your Wild Behavior hosts.
Rachel and Megan interview each other about their scientific journeys. We find out about demanding elephants, curious kea parrots and our shared experiences of the slightly gross side of working with car…
We covered some important questions with Dr Chris Krupenye, a leading figure in ape-hollywood as well as actual science. Can apes read minds? What skills are actually needed to succeed in social situations (asking for a friend)? How does one make a soap opera for chimpanzees?
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Did you know some crows can make tools? But do the crows really understand what they're doing or do they just get lucky?
In this episode of the Wild Behavior podcast Dr Sarah Jelbert tells us all about the tool-making abilities of New Caledonian Crows! Let's swoop into the world of birds.…
How do you study an animal that lives in a totally different world?
In this first episode of the Wild Behavior podcast Dr Stephanie King tells us all about the incredible life of a dolphin researcher! Dive on in with us (pun intended).Links to Stephanie's work:https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people…
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