SciBar – Meerkats to Moths: How animals behave and why

Join Dr. Tristram Wyatt to discover how animal behavior has evolved and how we can understand animal societies better. From molecular tools to developments in computing, new technologies have caused revolution in the study of animal behavior, allowing us to investigate in ways never previously possible.

Tristram Wyatt is a senior research associate at the Zoology department, University of Oxford and emeritus fellow at Kellogg College . The second edition of his book Pheromones and Animal Behavior won the Royal Society of Biology’s prize for Best Postgraduate Textbook in 2014 and his TED talk on human pheromones has been viewed over a million times. His latest book is Animal Behavior: A very Short Introduction, published by OUP in 2017.