Hyaenidology (HYENAS) with Christine Wilkinson

Oh hey, it's the guy in overalls and no shirt, Ali Ward, and I'm glad you're here every minute of this episode as a gift. So I asked around to some past Ology guests. I was like, Who are you excited about in science right now? And within like five minutes, I got two texts telling me that I needed to meet this specificologist. Like ASAP, a conservation scientist, a carnivore ecologist, an urban ecologist. They work in LA. They got their bachelor's at Cornell, a PhD at UC Berkeley. They're now an assistant curator of community science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. They're the co chair also of the hyena specialist group. They're also A national geographic.

Explorer. They're also a PBS science communicator and a co-founder of the beloved Black Mammologist Week. I mosied over to the museum as fast as as I could. And I was like, please let me talk to you. So in this episode, we're going to chat about everything from hyenas in the media what they're eating. Are they matriarchal? We're gonna talk about hormones. Why the ladies have a penis, pretty much. So much more. But first, let's thank the patrons of the show for supporting us from the beginning for as little as a dollar a month via patreon.com slash ologyes and for submitting so many great questions.

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