James Higham
<p>JAMES HIGHAM talks about primates and primatology; long-term fieldwork in Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico and Gashaka Gumti National Park in Nigeria; and the ethics and politics of conservation. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria, now considered the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean islands in recorded history, hit Cayo Santiago and its resident rhesus macaques. This conversation begins with the devastating hurricane and opens up to questions about value, human agency, scientific expertise, and the urgent need for interdisciplinary collaboration.</p> <p>Higham works across the fields of zoology and anthropology. He teaches at New York University Department of Anthropology, where he also leads the Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution Group.</p>
Authors: Elaine Gan
Contributors: James Higham
Creative Director: Wanda Acosta
Composer & Audio Editor: Josh Allen
Audio Engineer: Joseph Hazan
Sonic Ethnographer: Ernst Karel
Media Researcher: Hannah Tardie
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab
Part of: Multispecies Worldbuilding Podcast