Talks, interviews and documentaries
Popping the Science Bubble on April 21, a monthly event at the Berkeley Public Library, talk title What the chimpanzee diet tells us about the origins of alcohol consumption [fast forward to 10:00]:
Ferment Meeting on April 21 academic seminar titled In pursuit of an evolutionary hangover: wild fermentation, the chimpanzee diet, and the origins of alcohol production available to view here (password: z3fy&!AS)
Ph.D. finishing talk at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology’s Grinnell Library (March 2026) Towards a wild fermentation ecology: alcohol within floral nectar and the frugivorous diet of chimpanzees
Press interviews for Maro et al. (2026) Low-level ethanol is widespread within floral nectar
Interviewed by: Berkeley News, The Telegraph (UK), BBC World Service (see above), NPR Plus (coming soon)
Also featured in: Vice (USA),Metrópoles (Spanish), Tiisys.com (Japanese), ERR News (Estonian), Naked Science (Russian), Galileu (Portuguese), Unian (Ukranian), Sciences et Avenir (French), Merkur (German)
Press interviews for Maro et al. (2026) Urinary concentrations of a direct ethanol metabolite indicate substantial ingestion of fermenting fruit by chimpanzees
Interviewed by: National Public Radio (see above), Reuters (see above), The Times (London), DIE ZEIT (Germany), Scientific American , El País, As It Happens (Canadian radio), Channel 5 News Live (London), ITW French TV TF1, Le Figaro, NVT (Russian TV)
Also featured in: Smithsonian Magazine, Vice
Research seminar (30 min video) for Urinary concentrations of a direct ethanol metabolite indicate substantial ingestion of fermenting fruit by chimpanzees
The Wild Bits (podcast), Feb 22, 2026. I discuss my work in an hour-long interview.
Tiere im Rausch (Wild on a High), 2025 A documentary film series on natural inebriation, featuring my research assaying ethyl glucuronide in chimpanzee urine at Ngogo in Uganda, published in Biology Letters. The full episode will be available later in 2026. A 2-minute preview put together by the UC Berkeley press office is below.
Press interviews for Maro et al. (2025) Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees
Interviewed by: BBC Newsweek (see above), CNN (see above), NBC Bay area (see above), Quirks and Quarks (Canadian radio, see above), The Wall Street Journal, KCBS radio San Francisco, National Geographic, Swedish National Television (SVT), Live Science, The Daily Californian, BR24 radio Munich, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Nautilus, The i Paper, Radio Active radio Canada, The Times (UK), Le Point, Reuters, Le Parisien, New Scientist, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Popular Science, El País, SF Chronicle
Conference presentation for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2024: Ethanol concentrations within floral nectar at a Mediterranean climate botanical garden
Conference presentation for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2023: Ungulate-patronized natural salt licks are located disproportionately inland relative to N. American oceanic margins. Watch the subtitled video on YouTube:
Taste: The Flavor of Life, 2022 A documentary film series about evolution and the sense of taste, where I talk about my research with Robert Dudley in the second episode. Watch an excerpt on YouTube:
