Animal Behavior and Ecology: The Social Life of Giraffes

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Science/STEAM

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Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Fred Bercovitch, PhD, will discuss giraffes' complex society, with gregarious females forming babysitting groups and solitary males devoting their lives to finding sex partners.

Dr. Bercovitch is a wildlife conservation biologist. He has studied baboons in Kenya, rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico, giraffes in Zambia and South Africa, wild dogs in Zambia, elephants in Botswana, koalas in Australia, and snow monkeys in Japan, as well as cheetahs, Nile lechwe, giraffes, koalas, elephants, bushbabies, and California condors in captivity. He has published a number of scientific articles, as well as contributing to San Diego Zoo’s Zoonooz magazine, Mongabay, and USA Today.

This San Diego Oasis presentation is free to attend thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Branch Library.

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