# Gisela Kaplan
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gisela kaplan is an Australian ethologist who primarily specialises in ornithology and primatology. She is a professor emeritus in animal behaviour at the University of New England, Australia, and also honorary professor of the Queensland Brain Institute.
== Academic career ==
Kaplan graduated from Monash University with a Doctor of Philosophy.She published her first book with Clive Kessler, Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom in 1989, followed by Contemporary Western European Feminism in 1990.In 2005, she submitted a second thesis, titled Vocal behaviour of Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen).In 2011, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of New England.In 2015, Kaplan was conferred honorary fellow of the American Ornithological Society.In 2016, the University of New England awarded her the status of emeritus professor.
Summer Reading with Emily Gale
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Gisela Kaplan
Conversations is bringing you a summer treat — a collection of Sarah's most memorable guests through out the years.
Gisela Kaplan fell under the spell of birds when hand-rearing a magpie nestling. After it learned to speak, she was so intrigued she switched careers and began her research into avia…
The blue budgie in Berlin — Gisela Kaplan's story
Animal behaviourist Gisela Kaplan grew up in devastated post-WWII Berlin, forced to eat soap and wild nettles to survive. A brilliant student who loved music, she trained as an opera singer and an academic. Decades later, after adopting a magpie nestling, she began a new chapter as one of the world…
Talking magpies, grieving tawny frogmouths and canny galahs
Gisela Kaplan fell under the spell of birds when she hand-reared a magpie nestling. When it learned to speak, she was so intrigued she switched careers to study avian behaviour. Her books on Australian native birds have been ground-breaking (R)
Animal Behaviouralist: Talking magpies, grieving tawny frogmouths and canny galahs
Gisela Kaplan fell under the spell of birds when hand-rearing a magpie nestling. After it learned to speak, she was so intrigued she switched careers and began her research into avian behaviour. Her many books on Australian native birds have been ground-breaking.
Many assumptions about the nature o…
Animal Behaviouralist: Talking magpies, grieving tawny frogmouths and canny galahs
Gisela Kaplan fell under the spell of birds when hand-rearing a magpie nestling. After it learned to speak, she was so intrigued she switched careers and began her research into avian behaviour. Her many books on Australian native birds have been ground-breaking.
Many assumptions about the nature o…
S3 #49 How does playing make birds smarter? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Gisela Kaplan.
Some book publications:
Kaplan, Gisela (2019) Bird Bonds: Sex, mate-choice and cognition in Australian native birds. Macmillan/Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney. (ISBN 978-1-76055-420-0, pbk. 354 pp)
Kaplan, Gisela (2019) Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird. 2nd ed…
The Brownbeak Chronicles: SciComm x Bird Noir
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Australia Talks – 1 Oct 2026: Does your magpie like you? + Indian mynas are a feral pest
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions with your hosts DK and Ardeet.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:08:08 – Why magpies …
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