Episode 249: The Uses and Limits of Anthropomorphism (with Katy Kocisko, Center for Great Apes)

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Ya'll know the drill by now: you send us an email, you get invited to be on the podcast, and as a result we get to hang out with Katy Kocisko (not Kocinko, Chris), orangutan caretaker at The Center for Great Apes! Katy shares how a school field trip lead to her first internship and full time job at Bearizona Wildlife Park (where she first met the NEI crew when we were consulting there), how a lifelong interest in great apes lead to a big move across the country to our neck of the woods, and the challenges with anthropomorphism when caring for animals that are like us in many ways (and were often someone's pet).

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