Documentaries, media interviews, and conference presentations
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 work 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.
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.
Live press interviews for Maro et al. (2025) Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees
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
For more coverage see the article’s [Altmetric page]
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