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Gorillaology (GORILLAS) with Tara Stoinski

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Fresh new episode! Gorillas. These chest-beating, salad-munching, communal living, thick-furred beauties have so many surprises for you. (Don't get this confused with the earlier Primatology episode because this is all new and zeros in on two species of critically endangered ape!) Gorillaologist (IT’S A WORD) Dr. Tara Stoinski has been a gorilla scientist for nearly 3 decades and dishes on everything from fieldwork in cloudy mountains to dick facts, forest farts, banana flim-flam, the intersection of animal conservation and community investment, night-time nesting, grief, what those big teeth are for, gorilla musk, the legacy of primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey and the Gorilla Fund, and why our closest relatives need and deserve our protection. Also some weird asides about jaw exercises and online dating, because I want to.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's that extra stick of deodorant that you keep in the glove compartment.

0:04.7

Alli Ward, I'm here for you with a fresh new episode dedicated to apes just like us.

0:10.6

So perhaps you have heard the Primatology episode.

0:13.4

It was released as episode two back when we were just tiny little tiny little babies in

0:17.8

2017.

0:18.9

But primates, it's a big-ass category.

0:21.2

So when I got an email from someone that started, quote, I'm probably one of only a few people

0:26.6

in the world whose job involves feeling a 400 pound silverback's breath on the back of

0:33.3

my neck.

0:34.3

I was like, game on, woman.

0:36.7

Let's do it.

0:37.7

So I googled to see if I was making up the term guerrillaology.

0:41.6

And sure enough, it does exist in the literature.

0:44.5

So there's a 2007 textbook, guerrilla society, conflict, compromise, and cooperation between

0:49.1

the sexes.

0:50.2

And it involves the word guerrillaology.

0:52.2

So it's on.

0:53.2

Now the word guerrilla itself comes from an account written by a Carthaginian explorer,

0:59.4

circa 500 BCE, who described a group of beings that his African guides called guerrilla.

1:05.7

And the translation says that the females outnumbered males and then goes into this brutal, horrible

1:12.6

account of chasing and trying to capture being counter-attacked by the males, abducting

1:17.9

females who tried to defend themselves and were eventually killed and skinned.

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