Lara Durgavich

ORCID: 0000-0003-3024-2900
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Research Areas
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Media Influence and Health

Boston University
2021-2022

Tufts University
2021

Harvard University
2021

March Mammal Madness is a science outreach project that, over the course of several weeks in March, reaches hundreds thousands people United States every year. We combine four approaches to – gamification, social media platforms, community event(s), and creative products run simulated tournament which 64 animals compete become champion. While encounters between are hypothetical, outcomes rely on empirical evidence from scientific literature. Players select their favored combatants...

10.7554/elife.65066 article EN cc-by eLife 2021-02-22

Knowledge of species-typical reproductive endocrinology profiles is crucial for testing hypotheses pertaining to the evolutionary history, parameters, and life history a species, managing well-being individual animals in human care. Large-scale empirical measurements ovarian hormones, however, are rare most primate including orangutans. In this study, we used enzyme immunoassays (EIA) quantify estrogen (estrone conjugates; E1 C) progesterone (pregnanediol-3-glucuronide; PdG) levels 98 cycles...

10.1002/ajp.23420 article EN American Journal of Primatology 2022-07-20

Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, navigating the mosaic landscape public education science communication, noted for rapid "ecological" succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particular translation activities.Here we briefly contextualize activities...

10.1002/ajhb.23659 article EN American Journal of Human Biology 2021-08-06

Chimp Empire is available for viewing on Netflix. No new data were created or analyzed in this review.

10.1002/ajpa.24872 article EN American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2023-11-15
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