75: Coquerel's Sifaka w/ Keriann McGoogan!

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

Science Communication, Pets & Animals, Zoology, Kids & Family, Nature, Wildlife Science, Animals, Science, Wildlife

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join Ellen and special guest, conservationist & primatologist Keriann McGoogan, for a review of Coquerel's sifaka! In this episode, we chat about what makes sifakas so special as well as what it's like to work with and study them in the wild in Madagascar. This episode was made in collaboration with the Lemur Conservation Network for the World Lemur Festival. You can celebrate World Lemur Day on Friday, October 30! https://www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/world-lemur-day/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford. I'm here again with Just the Zoo of Us. This is your favorite animal review podcast. And this week, I have a new friend who is joining us. This is Carrie Ann McGugan. Say hello to our friends, Carrie Ann.
0:34.7	Hi, everyone. Hi, Ellen. Thanks for having me. This is really exciting.
0:38.6	I am so excited to talk to you. I'm excited about our animal today, but before we get into that,
0:43.3	introduce us a little bit to yourself and your work and what you do. Sure. So I am by, I guess,
0:50.4	background and training. I'm a primate researcher. So that means that I am trained to study
0:57.1	primates in the wild. So you might be wondering how I came to kind of get to that space because it's a
1:04.0	bit unusual. But I actually started off as an English major when I took my undergraduate degree.
1:10.4	And then I ended up taking an optional
1:12.4	course that was called Introduction to Biological Anthropology. And I had a really, really engaging
1:18.8	course instructor who actually worked as the head of conservation at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada,
1:24.9	where I'm from. And so he was so inspiring. He showed a lot of
1:30.9	videos and gave us a lot of really cool insights about his work and his background and conservation
1:38.2	and his travels. And so I ended up switching from English into anthropology.
1:56.0	And then I took my Bachelor of Science and then my master's degree, where I ended up going to Belize to study wild howler monkeys for a few months because there was a big devastating hurricane there.
1:58.9	So I studied the impact of that hurricane on that population.
2:02.3	And then I ended up doing my Ph.D, on lemurs. So I switched species. And I ended up going to the University of Toronto to study
2:10.1	lemurs in the wild in Madagascar. And so I spent 14 months living in Madagascar studying Cockrell-Strophoccas in the wild. And, you know,
2:21.9	I got to basically chase lemurs through the forest all day every day for like 14 hours a day.
2:29.1	That sounds awesome, but so tiring. Yeah, it was exhausting so I'll probably get to this later, but yeah,
2:35.5	they were well equipped to move through the forest, and I was not as equipped to taste after
2:42.4	them as quickly as I needed to. But it was a lot of fun. I spent, you know, days with them and, you know,
2:48.0	had a lot of lemur picnics and things like that along the way.
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