Natalie Uomini, Conversations with Crows

27 November 2021 16:00 GMT/ 11:00 EST/ 08:00 PST

Our next Lecture will be given by Natalie Uomini on Conversations with Crows. Natalie will present an overview of what is known about crow communication and some fresh research from her fieldwork with New Caledonian crows.

Natalie Uomini is a cognitive scientist who researches intelligence, the evolution of tool-use, language/communication, and teaching. She studies animals (including humans) by using methods from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and archaeology. Since 2015 she has worked with California sea otters living wild in the Pacific waters of the USA and travelled to a small South Pacific island to study the behaviour and communication of New Caledonian crows living in the wild. Natalie is in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.