Barbara J. King
is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, King has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States.
Recently, she has taken up writing about animal emotion and cognition more broadly, including in bison, farm animals, elephants and domestic pets, as well as primates.
King's most recent book is How Animals Grieve (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Her article "When Animals Mourn" in the July 2013 Scientific American has been chosen for inclusion in the 2014 anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing. King reviews non-fiction for the Times Literary Supplement(London) and is at work on a new book about the choices we make in eating other animals. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in 2002.
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Unless you have seen a garden of poisonous plants, a shrine to insects, or the bones of 1,000 ancient whales, you have more traveling to do, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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If you're afraid of spiders, would you try a three-hour virtual reality app designed to reduce your fear? Anthropologist Barbara J. King takes a look at a new program called Itsy.
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Dog videos on the Internet are fun to discuss and debate — and sometimes, notes anthropologist Barbara J. King, they clue us in to what might be happening in canine minds.
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Creationists and scientists alike responded in droves to a commentary by Barbara J. King that stated there's no controversy about teaching evolution. The author takes a look at the heat and the light.
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Puerto Rico is home to a large number of stray dogs. Commentator Barbara J. King clues us in to the problem.
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A monkey falls from a tree in Brazil; her male partner offers comfort as she dies. Anthropologist Barbara King says a new paper detailing the incident opens our eyes to the reality of animal emotions.