{"id":83448,"date":"2023-03-21T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&eventDate=2023-10-19#038;eventDate=2023-06-15#038;p=82108"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:18:44","slug":"science-cafe-whats-a-bonobo","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-cafe-whats-a-bonobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Cafe: What’s a Bonobo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grab a bite from the Daily Planet Cafe and join host Chris Smith and special guests for the Science Cafe. On the 3rd<\/sup> Thursday of every month at 7pm, gather with other curious minds at this after-hours event for an informal presentation and conversation about current science topics with guest experts. The Daily Planet Cafe<\/a> is open 5\u20138pm with a full menu during the Science Cafe.<\/p>\n

Join us in person in the Daily Planet Cafe, or\u00a0watch the livestream on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight’s Presentation<\/h3>\n

What’s a bonobo? If you don\u2019t know the answer, don\u2019t worry \u2014 you\u2019re not alone. Discover the curious lives of the least-known great ape (humans\u2019 closest genetic relative), plus where they live, why they\u2019re known as \u201cthe hippie ape\u201d AND \u201cthe Peter Pan ape,\u201d and why they\u2019re threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s Expert<\/h3>\n

Karen Kemp is a storyteller and strategic communicator whose work amplifies the impact of environmental organizations. She visited the world\u2019s only bonobo sanctuary and sole bonobo rewilding site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and works with Friends of Bonobos<\/a>, a conservation nonprofit in Congo. Previously she was a journalist, led communications and marketing for Duke University\u2019s Sanford School of Public Policy and led communications for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. To chronicle Museum curators\u2019 research, she accompanied them on projects in western North Carolina bogs (turtles), South Carolina swamps (bats), and an ocean research vessel off the coast of Florida (fish and marine life).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grab a bite from the Daily Planet Cafe and join host Chris Smith and special guests for the Science Cafe. On the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7pm, gather with other curious minds at this after-hours event for an informal presentation and conversation about current science topics with guest experts. The Daily Planet Cafe… Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[41,13,164,15,26],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/83448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/83448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83448"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=83448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}