The Decline of the Primate Handyman
Download MP3Tim and Syma talk to Professor Dora Biro about animal behaviour and cognition. Want to know why your kitten behaves differently from you, or discover that chimps become less competent at using tools as they age? This is the podcast episode for you.
You can read Dora’s recent paper on tool use in chimps here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/105411
You can read Dora’s recent paper on tool use in chimps here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/105411
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Creators and Guests
Host
Tim Coulson
Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science
Guest
Dora Biro
Dora Biro is a behavioral biologist and the Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester.[1][2] She was previously a Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford.[3] and a visiting professor in the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan.[4] Biro studies social behavior, problem solving, and learning in birds and primates.
