• Question: how long have you been studying animal behaviour?

    Asked by 942anmh43 to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 10 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      I started studying animal behaviour when I began my degree in 2004, but I got more heavily involved in 2012 when I did my masters degree and started looking specifically at elephant behaviour

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      I have been studying animal behaviour ever since I discovered you could actually study it for real. It started when I was a student of psychology when I was 22. We had a class on how animals learn or inherit some behaviours. I thought it was really interesting and asked the teacher about it. I then spent 6 months working for someone he knew at another university – he worked on birdsong. And the rest is history. Animal Behaviour is a really important science – I wish I had known back then that you could study it at university like my students do here at Aberystwyth

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 11 Mar 2017:

      hmm… I did my Bachelors thesis project in 2002-03 so I guess since then really. I enjoyed it so much I never looked back. 🙂

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 12 Mar 2017:

      This is my 8th year, and it really fascinating, especially since we know so little about the behaviour of wildlife. The behaviour of wild animals are difficult to study as they are out in the forest and sometimes very secretive.

    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 13 Mar 2017:

      I’ve always been interested in it and observed the animals i was around and tried to understand their behaviour. I started studying it formally when I began my Masters degree which was 8 years ago now. Seems like a long time now!

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