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BERG meeting tomorrow: Wednesday 19th May
by Christine Anna Caldwell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Dear all, Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. It will be our last meeting for the semester, and Lou Tasker will be presenting some of her PhD work on the welfare of laboratory macaques. We start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Hope to see you there! Christine.

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FW: [african-elephant] "Echo - An Unforgettable Elephant" on BBC Aug 5/8
by Phyllis Lee 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear all, Some of you may be interested.... Echo - An Unforgettable Elephant A celebration of the life and legacy of Echo, the world's most famous elephant, who was born in 1945 and died in 2009, and who Natural World followed for the last 20 years of her life. The timing of Echo's death could not be worse. The wise old matriarch had guided her family for half a century but the cruellest drought in living memory devastated her home under the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Will her 38-strong band of relatives and descendants overcome the loss of their leader, hunger and poachers to survive? Thu 5 Aug 2010 20:00 BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)) Sun 8 Aug 2010 18:00 BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland, Wales only) Article at the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tcf7z See also Mike Birkhead's wonderful commentary: http://www.mikebirkhead.com/ And they are apparently playing all the original series on BBC4 on the 4th of August! Best Phyllis P.C. Lee Professor & Head of Department Department of Psychology University of Stirling Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA +44 (0) 1786 467656 Fax: 01786 467641 phyllis.lee(a)stir.ac.uk

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BERG meeting tomorrow: Wednedsday 12 May
by Christine Anna Caldwell 11 May '10

11 May '10

Dear all, Just a reminder about this tomorrow's BERG meeting. Sophia Daoudi, one of our current final year students, will be presenting research that she carried out on the capuchins and squirrel monkeys at the Living Links facility at Edinburgh Zoo last summer as a bursary project, working with Hannah Buchanan-Smith. The meeting starts at 5.30pm as per usual, in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Hope to see you there. Christine.

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No BERG meeting this week
by Christine Anna Caldwell 03 May '10

03 May '10

Dear all, Unfortunately, Lou Tasker has had to cancel her talk for BERG, which was originally scheduled for tomorrow (Wed 28 April) so we have no meeting this week. Lou has rescheduled for 19 May instead. We have another change to the schedule for next week too, because Darren McGarry from RZSS has also had to cancel. However, Darren has arranged for someone else to come along from the zoo in his place. So next week we will have a talk from Simon Girling, the Head Veterinary Surgeon at RZSS. Simon will be giving a talk on veterinary medicine in conservation. The revised schedule is available at: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php Christine.

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New Course and Workshop at Howletts and Port Lympne
by Mark Kingston Jones 02 May '10

02 May '10

Dear All, Apologies for any cross posting but I would be very grateful if you could pass on the information to any parties that may be interested in the following events being held at Howletts and Port Lympne later this year: The Third Student Environmental Enrichment Course (SEEC): July 26th - 29th Due to the continued success and high demand the third SEEC will be running at Howletts and Port Lympne this July. This course is designed specifically for college and university students (past or present) who do not currently work within a zoo setting, but are looking to do so as a career. The course aim is to provide valuable experience and an overview of additional useful skills to a would-be keeper's CV. Please note you must be 18 or over to attend this course. The Second UK ‘The Shape of Enrichment' Workshop: Sept 6th - 9th Howletts and Port Lympne hosted the 1st UK Shape workshop in March 2009 and is very pleased to announce that Valerie Hare is returning in Sept to run a second 4 day workshop aimed at keepers, managers, supervisors, curators, and veterinarians working in this field. Places for both are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment. For more information please visit: http://www.aspinallfoundation.org/portlympne/keepers-and-rangers/view/241 Many thanks and best wishes, Mark Kingston Jones

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Tomorrow's BERG meeting
by Christine Anna Caldwell 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Just some extra information about the BERG meeting tomorrow - Blake Morton's presentation will be on "Asian Ape Resource Cognition: Cross-Species Comparison in Use and Visitation to Food Trees". Christine.

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BERG meeting tomorrow: Wednesday 21 April
by Christine Anna Caldwell 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Dear all, Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Blake Morton will be presenting. We start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Also, unfortunately Lou Tasker is now unable to present next week (28 April) as originally planned. Her talk has been rescheduled to 19 May. This means we have a slot free next week, so if anyone has anything that they would like to present (or a journal article they would like to discuss), then please just let me know. Thanks. Hope to see you at tomorrow's meeting. Christine.

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BERG meeting tomorrow: Wednesday 14 April
by Christine Anna Caldwell 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Dear all, Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Becky Leonardi (one of our final year undergraduates) will be giving a presentation about her dissertation project on exchange behaviour in dogs. We start at 5.30pm as usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Hope to see you there! Christine. Dr Christine Caldwell Department of Psychology University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4PA http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/ccaldwell

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meeting at Oxford Brooks this month
by Liz Williamson 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anybody (besides Phyllis) is going to the Oxford Brooks meeting, and would be willing to carry a box or two back to Scotland for me. MSc Primate Conservation 10th Anniversary Conference, Friday 23 April 2010 - Saturday 24 April 2010 http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/events/e-items/primate-conf http://ssl.brookes.ac.uk/anthgeog/conference/programme.asp Many thanks, Liz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Liz Williamson Scottish Primate Research Group Department of Psychology University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/ http://apes.eva.mpg.de/

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Tomorrow's BERG meeting: Wednesday 31 March
by Christine Anna Caldwell 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Dear all, Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Cristina Matthews, who is currently working with me as a research assistant, will be giving a talk on the dissertation project she did last year as part of her Masters degree at Edinburgh University (Evolution of Language and Cognition MSc). Cristina will be presenting this work at the Evolang meeting in Utrecht in a couple of weeks time, so this is a practice run for her conference talk. We start at 5.30pm as usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Hope to see you there! Christine.

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