Ma vie de chouette

Speakers :
Alexandre Roulin, Ornithologist and Professor of Biology at UNIL, Department of Ecology and Evolution and
Christine Mohr, Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at UNIL

The lecture will be followed by a book-signing session for their new book ‘Ma vie de chouette’.

Diplomacy, hunting, espionage, solidarity, adultery, divorce, bringing up young... the behaviour of this not-so-rare but threatened bird is full of surprises. The result is 10 lessons in savage morality in which Alexandre Roulin, one of the world's leading owl specialists who has been studying them for more than 40 years, takes to the stage to reveal the authentic behind-the-scenes stories of his research and draw striking parallels between this bird and us humans. Co-written with Christine Mohr, a psychology professor who specialises in the analysis of human behaviour and superstitions, this original and exhilarating account of the life and habits of this nocturnal bird of prey, which is closer to us than we think, will take you from surprise to surprise.
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