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Dr. Jo Wimpenny: The Beauty of the Beasts
May 8 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hate scorpions? Got it out for rattlesnakes? Think cockroaches are creepy? Think again! Join us on May 8 at noon (PST) as we welcome zoologist Dr. Jo Wimpenny to discuss her latest book, The Beauty of the Beasts: Rethinking Nature’s Least Loved Animals.
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Dr. Jo Wimpenny is a zoologist and writer with a research background in animal behavior and the history of science. She studied Zoology at the University of Bristol, and went on to research problem-solving in crows and tool use for her DPhil at Oxford University. After postdoctoral research on the history of ornithology at Sheffield, she authored Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables and co-authored Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin, which won the 2015 PROSE award for History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Jo writes for BBC Wildlife and has previously presented at the BA Festival of Science, Science Oxford, the Royal Society Summer Science Fair and Glasgow Science Fair.