Understanding female agency through...monkey poop? | STEMpod107

18/09/2019 28 min
Understanding female agency through...monkey poop? | STEMpod107

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Episode Synopsis

Meet Laura Abondano, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Laura’s asking some very cool questions about female agency by studying mating behaviors in woolly monkeys. Although much of her thesis work entails picking up and analyzing monkey poop, it also means days spent in the rainforest observing these monkeys, leading to unexpected encounters with some pretty large forest creatures.