(Living Links.org, 3, Oct 2012) - Over the past 2 weeks the Living Links team has had some
busy days with visitors.
On Sunday the 23rd of September we had the St Andrews
University PsychSoc visit Budongo and Living Links. They received an intro talk
from Prof Andy Whiten and had guided tours from the Budongo keepers and Living
Links research staff. They even had a chance to see a live demonstration of
Mark Bowler and Emily Messer’s research into fur rubbing with capuchin monkeys.
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| "Feed me humans" |
Monkey Medicine – A mini- documentary about fur rubbing can
be viewed at http://vimeo.com/48287364
Then on Monday evening of the 24th of September delegates
from the Animal Concepts Conference entitled Animal Welfare: Emotion, Cognition
and Behaviour enjoyed two ‘talkettes’ by Prof Andy Whiten, one an introduction
to the Living Links/Budongo Consortium and the other on primate minds.
The delegates also received tours of both facilities and
enjoyed a brief photo shoot in the rain at our Primate Family Tree.
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| "Come here random zoo folk, we need a publicity photo" |
Also as part of the Animal Concepts conference Dr Alex Weiss
of our Living Links board gave a talk on animal personality and welfare.
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| "This my dear friends is a wild CHAV" |
To view some of Dr.Weiss’s work on personality, visit the
website below http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347212001157
Finally, yesterday our Living Links Team presented a variety
of talks to the RZSS Adult Class and again they received tours of our
facilities, including a visit to the thick billed parrots with Dr Amanda Seed
to see our birds partake in some cognitive research.
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| "If that bird shits on me again...." |
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