After giving my presentation on the evolution of hand and tool use at the HBES conference in May, I decided that I needed to utilize opportunities like this more often. Having met a young researcher from New Mexico State University with similar interests and a willingness to collaborate on the topic of theory of mind in lemurs, I applied to give a talk at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society (CCS). My talk was accepted, and the title is "The Little Lemur Who Spoke: Theory of Mind in Lemurs?" (The abstract is available online, and is found on page 11.)
Anyone familiar with my tales about Obi will know who this talk primarily focuses on. I hope that in sharing my experiences with him and other lemurs I can convince the academic community to shed some of their biases and take a new look at the lemur mind.
I'm also trying to see if I can give a talk about the lemur mind and cognition on a TED talk.
Showing posts with label Lemur Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lemur Research. Show all posts
Monday, September 7, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Selected for HBES 2015!
I'm excited to announce that the abstract I submitted was selected, and I will be giving a presentation of my research at the 27th Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference in Columbia, Missouri. The title of my talk will be: "The evolution of cognition and hand use in primates: an interdisciplinary perspective".
I may post the abstract a little closer to the date of the presentation.
I may post the abstract a little closer to the date of the presentation.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Back to Wiki
My newest work (and Featured Article candidate) on Wikipedia: Fork-marked lemur.
I'm also working to submit an abstract to the 27th Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference in hopes of presenting my hypothesis about the origins of object manipulation in simian primates. As always, this was inspired by Obi and Janga, and my work is dedicated to them.
I'm also working to submit an abstract to the 27th Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference in hopes of presenting my hypothesis about the origins of object manipulation in simian primates. As always, this was inspired by Obi and Janga, and my work is dedicated to them.
Friday, August 2, 2013
At least one (possibly 4) new species of dwarf lemur have been discovered in Madagascar:
The Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) is found in only 3 isolated forest fragments in southern Madagascar, and the genetic analysis suggests many new species of dwarf lemur exist on the island. I wrote an article about it on Wikipedia, and it may get featured on the main page soon (under In the News): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavasoa_dwarf_lemur
The Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) is found in only 3 isolated forest fragments in southern Madagascar, and the genetic analysis suggests many new species of dwarf lemur exist on the island. I wrote an article about it on Wikipedia, and it may get featured on the main page soon (under In the News): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavasoa_dwarf_lemur
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Welcome to the family (Cheirogaleidae)
Two new species were described on (or around) 26 March 2013. Read the Live Science article Tiny Lemur Twins Are 2 New Species. Special thanks to fellow lemur enthusiast Margie Deeb for bringing it to my attention.
Mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) are the smallest of the lemurs, measuring just a few inches in length and weighing less than 100 g (less than 3.5 oz). This also makes them the smallest living primates. (Believe it or not, some potentially close relatives of our ancient ancestors were once smaller.) Mouse lemurs were popularized in the Madagascar movies and related miniseries by the character, Mort.
Since I write lemur articles on Wikipedia, I have created some basic articles for these two new species to summarize the research.
As always, more lemur-related Wikipedia articles are on the way.
Mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) are the smallest of the lemurs, measuring just a few inches in length and weighing less than 100 g (less than 3.5 oz). This also makes them the smallest living primates. (Believe it or not, some potentially close relatives of our ancient ancestors were once smaller.) Mouse lemurs were popularized in the Madagascar movies and related miniseries by the character, Mort.
Since I write lemur articles on Wikipedia, I have created some basic articles for these two new species to summarize the research.
As always, more lemur-related Wikipedia articles are on the way.
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