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The Curiosity Conversation


A series of podcasts featuring a different researcher each month, where we’ll ask the question – What Makes Us Human?


The Curiosity Conversation: Dr Manon Schweinfurth
When: Available from Thursday 25 May
Where: AnchorSpotify and other podcasting platforms
The Curiosity Conversation speaks with a different expert every month to explore the world through the unexpected, ground-breaking or contested aspects of the stories museums tell. This month, join Eilidh and Matt as they to speak to Dr Manon Schweinfurth, and find out why reciprocity in rats might mean that humans aren’t as unique as we might like to think.

The Curiosity Conversation: Dr Ellen Garland
When: Available from Thursday 27 July 
Where:Anchor, Spotify and other podcasting platforms 
The Curiosity Conversation speaks with a different expert every month to explore the world through the unexpected, ground-breaking or contested aspects of the stories museums tell. This month, join Eilidh and Matt as they to speak to Dr Ellen Garland, and find out why musical revolutions in whales might mean that humans aren’t as unique as we might like to think.

The Curiosity Conversation: Dr Kirsty Graham and Dr Cat Hobaiter
When:
 Available from Thursday 31 August
Where:Anchor, Spotify and other podcasting platforms 
The Curiosity Conversation speaks with a different expert every month to explore the world through the unexpected, ground-breaking or contested aspects of the stories museums tell. This month, join Eilidh and Matt as they to speak to Dr Kirsty Graham and Dr Cat Hobaiter, and find out why communication in chimps might mean that humans aren’t as unique as we might like to think.

Readings


A selection on the themes of the exhibition picked by our experts.


Bandini, E., et al. 2020. Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour. Biol. Lett. 16: 20200122. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0122

Bekoff, Marc. 2008. The emotional lives of animals. Publishers Group UK. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Brakes P et al. 2021. A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation. Proc. R. Soc. B 288: 20202718. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2718

De Waal, Frans. 2017. Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?. Granta Books. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Garland, Ellen C., Claire Garrigue, Michael J. Noad. 2021. When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20200313. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0313

Garland, Ellen C., et al. 2011. Dynamic Horizontal Cultural Transmission of Humpback Whale Song at the Ocean Basin Scale. Current Biology 21: 687–691. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.019

Hanackova, Pavla and Dasha Lebesheva. 2022. Humans and animals. Ingram Publisher Services. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Hobaiter C, Kirsty E. Graham, Richard W. Byrne. 2022. Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20210301. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0301

Kaminski, Juliane, et al. 2009. Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human’s perspective. Behaviour 146: 979-998. DOI: 10.1163/156853908X395530

Klump, Barbara C., et al. 2015. Hook tool manufacture in New Caledonian crows: behavioural variation and the influence of raw materials. BMC Biology 13: 97. DOI 10.1186/s12915-015-0204-7

Krupenye, Christopher and Josep Call. 2019. Theory of mind in animals: Current and future directions. WIREs Cognitive Science 10: 1503. DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1503

Lala, Kevin N. 2017. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Newbery, Linda. 2021. This Book is Cruelty-free: Animals and Us. Pavilion Books Ltd. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Radeva, Sabina. 2022. On the Origin of Species. PRH Children’s Books. Available at the Wardlaw Museum Shop.

Schweinfurth, Manon K. and Michael Taborsky. 2018. Reciprocal Trading of Different Commodities in Norway Rats. Current Biology 28, 594–599. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.058

Schweinfurth, Manon K. 2021. Reciprocal cooperation – Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) as an example. The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 343-361). DOI: 10.1017/9781108564113.019

Schweinfurth, Manon K. 2020. The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). eLife 9: 54020. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.54020

More


As the exhibition programme progresses, we will upload a variety of resources that allow you to explore further the themes of the exhibition.


Listen to this Podcast on BBC Radio 4 – The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 22, When the Monkeys Met the Chimps.

Read more about the research conducted at St Andrews on the Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution website.

Keep an eye out for Museums Blogs written by the Museums team and our community partners.