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My lectures at the Minding Animals Conference

From Wednesday July 4 to Friday July 6 the second Minding Animals Conference will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, hosted by the Ethics Institute and Faculty of Veterinary Science at Utrecht University. Recently the two abstracts that I submitted … Continue reading

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Registration for new Hovo courses now open!

In 2011 I will be presenting my course Communicatie en taal bij dieren at still further institutes of the Hoger Onderwijs Voor Ouderen – HOVO (Higher Education for older people). My course on the many wonders of animal communication and … Continue reading

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New research on bonobos shaking their head as if to say NO

An article on bonobo head-shaking has just appeared in the scientific journal Primates by the investigators Christel Schneider, Josep Call and Katja Liebal from the Free University in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. The … Continue reading

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Ape language videos on YouTube

YouTube is an amazing site. It’s incredible how many videos people have uploaded to it. I use it a lot to find videos with medieval and renaissance music, which is a music genre I am especially fond of. I also … Continue reading

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