Episode 120 - Dr. Christopher Schmitt

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2014

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Christopher Schmitt (evopropinquitous.net) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA, and his research in primatology focuses on primate development and life history. He joins Jesse, Matt and Andy this week to talk about his high school experiences with field work in Argentina, primate infanticide, collecting howler monkey urine, capucin monkeys sticking their fingers in each others eyes to chill out, the risks of taking selfies with dead hippos when there are lions nearby, floating vegetation islands that transport animals, old world/new world ape divergence, why certain primates are getting obese, Koko the gorilla's nipple obsession, competing brands of chimp-taggin RFID chips and how to get involved in field work right where you live.

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0:30.2	Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan.
0:32.0	Next to me is Jesse Case.
0:32.4	Hello.
0:34.4	And just to my left is Andy Wood.
0:35.3	I am here also.
0:37.8	We're in the back garden.
0:38.7	We're back in the yard.
0:39.3	We are.
0:40.7	The neighborhood's off lockdown.
0:42.0	There's bugs around.
0:44.2	It's cooled off a little bit.
0:46.8	Yeah, but you guys, you guys, you guys missed it today.
0:47.9	You missed the crazy shooter.
0:48.8	Again?
0:49.7	Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:50.5	You didn't see that?
0:54.7	No. There was a guy with an assault rifle just on a roof. Magnolia was completely shut down.
0:55.6	It was bananas, man. I was wrong with our neighborhood.
0:56.7	I don't know.
0:57.1	It was an axe murder a month ago.
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