304: Dr. Keriann McGoogan's Top 3 Primatology Stories!
18 September 2025

304: Dr. Keriann McGoogan's Top 3 Primatology Stories!

Just the Zoo of Us

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Join Ellen & special guest, primatologist and author Dr. Keriann McGoogan, for primatology storytime! Our guest shares experiences from her time working with lemurs in Madagascar and howler monkeys in Belize, like kind gestures from people helping out their local monkeys after a hurricane. She also brings us some truly juicy tales from the study of primates, like a true crime thriller involving missing monkeys, a power struggle, and even a double life, an airplane full of macaques, setting the record straight on baboon social heirarchies, and the instrumental role of women in shaping primatology and our understanding of nature.

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Sound Credit:

Black howler monkey: Alex Munro, via biacoustica: https://bio.acousti.ca/content/black-howler-monkey-short

Siamang: Frank Lambert, XC1031364. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/1031364.