Monkey Tales - Learning About Stress

Ask A Biologist Podcast

Dive into the behavior and physiology of two different primate species that are helping biologists explore the science of stress, aging, and immunity. Dr. Biology sits down with scientist Noah Snyder-Mackler from Arizona State University to talk about some rhesus macaques living in a seemly tropical paradise and the geladas that live high in the Ethiopian mountains. Discover how these monkeys, their experiences, and their environment might illuminate the path to improving our physiological resilience.
Hear more about stress: Stressed Out | podcast
Read about stress: Why can some monkeys live high in the mountains?
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Chapters

1. The Island of the Monkeys (00:00:00)

2. Rhesus macaques (00:03:18)

3. Island Monkey Basics (00:04:45)

4. Life and Death before and after hurricane Maria (00:07:31)

5. Stress, Social Connections, and Immune Aging (00:13:58)

6. Stress and Adaptation in High-Altitude Monkeys (00:20:34)

7. Gelada Baboon - range (00:24:34)

8. Gelada Baboon - high altitude monkeys (00:27:30)

9. Three questions (00:32:20)

10. When did you first know you wanted to be a biologist? (00:32:30)

11. What would you be if you could not be a scientist? (00:33:50)

12. What advice do you have for a future scientist? (00:34:18)

13. Ask a Biologist With Noah (00:36:53)