Media

Cockatoos

ABC Radio covered my work on Sulphur-crested cockatoos in their ‘Off track’ podcast series:

mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2019/08/otk_20190824.mp3

ABC and The Guardian have covered my work on bin-opening in cockatoos:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-09-01/cockatoos-in-bins-animal-culture-off-track/11439076

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/02/clever-cockies-learn-to-open-sydney-wheelie-bins-and-drink-from-bubblers

Crows

My PhD thesis was awarded the 2019 Science and SciLife Prize for Young Scientists in the Category ‘Ecology and Environment’. Read my award-winning Essay here (link), and media coverage here:

https://www.ab.mpg.de/200563/interview-with-barbara-klump, https://www.ab.mpg.de/198788/barbara-klump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-wCVqBc2g

One of the major German newspapers ‘Die Zeit’ reported about my work on raw-material selectivity in New Caledonian crows:

https://www.zeit.de/2019/07/geradeschnabelkraehen-voegel-werkzeuge-materialien-tierforschung?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

The BBC covered my work on New Caledonian crows:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37024393

My work on safekeeping behaviour was covered as a ‘research highlight’ by Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/521397b