Jo Setchell

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230 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Jun

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The Infinite Monkey Cage · Monkey Business - Robin Dunbar, Dave Gorman and Jo Setchell · 17 Dec 2025 podcast

So if you have a bright red nose, you don't need any of that, because you can just look at someone else's nose and say, oh, OK, I know what's going on.

So there's a lot of coordination involved.

Yeah, definitely.

So if you're living just as two and you either spend all your time together, which can be involved with coordination and giving up what you wanted to do to coordinate with your partner, or there are some species, lemurs actually, rather than monkeys, where they coordinate within a home range, but they're not together.

They just keep in touch by yelling at each other.

Focalising.

Let alone how cramped it is if you want to be in a TT monkey costume.

I would completely agree that we need to immerse ourselves into the lives of primates.

It's not typical primatology.

There are some people who do it, and it's very useful.

Then you have the opportunity to describe things like when part are lost, for example.

So if a...

member of one of those long-term pairs dies, you see in the other what is very obvious to us that we assume is grief.

From a more natural science perspective, it's difficult to know how you measure that.

But one thing we do measure is oxytocin.

And in those long-term pair bonds, oxytocin is called a bonding hormone sometimes.

We see that oxytocin is important in maintaining those bonds.

It's also important in bonds, even in species that don't have one-to-one bonds.

So if you call oxytocin a love hormone, which some people do, then we can try to get hold of the idea of love.

But also I think there's always a really interesting contrast between what people present in academic conferences and what they talk about in the coffee break.

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