Gorillaology (GORILLAS) with Tara Stoinski

Gorillas. These chest-beating, salad-munching, communal living, thick-furred beauties have so many surprises for you. Gorillaologist (IT’S A WORD) Dr. Tara Stoinski has been a gorilla scientist for nearly 3 decades and dishes on everything from fieldwork in cloudy mountains to dick facts, forest farts, banana flim-flam, the intersection of animal conservation and community investment, night-time nesting, grief, what those big teeth are for, gorilla musk, the legacy of primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey and the Gorilla Fund, and why our closest relatives need and deserve our protection. Also some weird asides about jaw exercises and online dating, because I want to. 

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You may also enjoy our episodes on: Primatology, Scatology, Biological Anthropology, Phallology, Urology, Environmental Microbiology & Thantology 

Donations were made to Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund & LA Regional Food Bank 

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