Ambika Kamath and her colleagues are working to overturn male-biased, outdated views in behavioral biology.
in my field and others. I've been concerned for a number of reasons, including: our understanding of the animal kingdom has been warped by sexist bias, starting with Charles Darwin; many of the scientists who followed Darwin suffered from a chronic case ofor simply ignored females altogether; and in the past few decades a revolution has redefined the female of the species and the very forces that shape evolution.-based bias.
Marc Bekoff: Why did you get interested in correcting outdated views of animal behavior? Where has this work led you?Ambika Kamath: My interest in this subject began in graduate school, when I was studying the movement patterns and social interactions of brown anole lizards in Florida. It was widely accepted that these lizards were territorial, which meant, essentially, that they mostly stayed in a single place and defended that place against so-called intruders.
In time, I realized that a similar stubbornness pervaded much of the field of animal behavior, leading us to hold onto all kinds of frameworks, whether or not they’re actually useful for making sense of animals’ lives. This led me to eventually collaborate with Melina Packer, who is a feminist science studies scholar, to write a book that explores and deconstructs these longstanding frameworks across the field of animal behavior science.
MB: Who do you hope to reach in your interesting and important work? Are you hopeful that as people learn more about past and enduring biases in behavior biology they will come to see that they were getting only part of the story? AK: I hope to reach anybody who is excited about animals, and who believes that understanding animals’ lives is a worthwhile activity. I hope to show those folks that our understanding of animal lives is deeply intertwined with our understanding of human lives, and that we can be a lot more intentional about how we approach this intertwining, in a way that moves us towards greater justice for humans and animals alike.
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