Dr Lucy Aplin 'Clever cockies - Innovation and adaptation in sulphur-crested cockatoos'

Aplin and her team investigate cognition and culture in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos, asking whether the spread of new innovations can facilitate adaptive behavioural responses to anthropogenic change. 

Biography
Lucy Aplin is head of the Cognitive and Cultural Ecology Group, and leads the Clever Cockies Research Project. She currently holds joint positions as SERI Professorial Fellow at the University of Zurich and Associate Professor at the Australian National University.
Previously, Lucy was a Max Planck Research Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford. SHe studied for her PhD jointly at the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. 

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Booking
Lunchtime talks are held at 12.30 pm every Thursday from February to November. Talks last for 1 hour. We welcome donations by gold coins, notes, or electronically. The Friends use donations received at each talk to support Gardens’ programs and development and we thank all those who have donated.

Unless otherwise indicated, talks are held in the ANBG Theatrette.

It is a good idea to reserve a seat at the talks that you wish to attend; talks may be booked out very quickly.  Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached.

Bookings open 4 July 2025 at https://www.trybooking.com/DDQUU

The Friends of the ANBG thank the speakers who volunteer their time and talents to further the knowledge of all attending events in the Gardens. Many summaries or PowerPoint presentations of Thursday talks are available to Friends at the ANBG library. Please direct queries about the talks to the Thursday Talks Team: email talks@friendsanbg.org.au.