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Selected recent media coverage of our research:

Ximena and others talk to the BBC about spiders, webs and instinct (2020)

Ximena talking about kea forging ecology (2017)

Ed Yong, writer of "Not exactly rocket science" in National Geographic and The Atlantic has written about:
  • The Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter (2017)
  • Spider Hides From Spider Among Spider-Eating Ants (2014)
  • To study vampire spiders, build Frankenstein mosquitoes (2012)
  • Spiders gather in groups to impersonate ants (2009)
  • Spider mimics ant to eat spiders and avoid being eaten by spiders (2009)

Canada Broadcasting Corporation radio interview for 'Quirks and Quarks' on spider/ant mixed-species associations (2014) 

AAAS Science on spider/ant mixed-species associations (2014) and on kea behaviour (2017) 

New Zealand National Radio interview about our lab (2014)
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BBC on mosquito-eating spiders (2012)

Scientific American podcast about mosquito-eating spiders (2012)
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