[BERG] This week's BERG: Q&A with Dr Cynthia Moss

Dear BERGers, This week we are very excited to have Dr Cynthia Moss in conversation with BERG members - this will be a question and answer session. Cynthia is founder and director of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants and is involved in research & monitoring of elephants, training elephant researchers and promoting public awareness, to name a few. She has also written numerous influential books & articles, and created award-winning documentaries. Please find links below for further information on her work. Amboseli Trust for Elephants https://www.elephanttrust.org/ Interview with Cynthia & Vicki Fishlock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOPqacr2iQ Recent articles: African Elephant Play, Competence and Social Complexity http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/20549/1/05.Lee_Moss_Final.pdf Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices http://www.pnas.org/content/111/14/5433.full.pdf [cid:image001.jpg@01D361FA.201CC130] Drinks and nibbles from 5.30pm as usual. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Best, Donna