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PUBLIC LECTURES ON COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN BIRDS
16 June 2000

The Australian Academy of Science's 2000 Selby Fellow is Associate Professor Irene Pepperberg from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. She will be giving public lectures in eastern Australia from 12-27 June. Her work is on cognitive processes in birds; it calls into question traditional assumptions about the nature and extent of human uniqueness.

For more information on times and venues for her public lectures, or to arrange interviews, please contact her hosts in each city:

• 15 June: Australian Museum (Sydney) public lecture, Sandra Harrison, sandrah@austmus.gov.au

• 19-21 June: University of New England (Armidale), David McKay, dmckay@metz.une.edu.au; and Lesley Rogers, lrogers@metz.une.edu.au

• 22 June, 1 pm: Questacon (Canberra), public lecture, Julie Foster, jfoster@questacon.edu.au

• 27 June: Museum Victoria (Melbourne), public lecture, Sarah Edwards, sedwards@mov.vic.gov.au