Feminist Lenses for Animal Interaction Research Lab

Principal Investigator: Ambika Kamath

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Colorado Boulder

The FLAIR lab closed in December 2023.

Ambika now works at Liminal, a growing science communication collective. Liminal has a newsletter that you can read and subscribe to here. And you can follow Ambika’s other writing and other updates here. Keep an eye out for her book co-authored with Melina Packer, called Feminism in the Wild: How Human Assumptions Have Shaped the Science of Animal Behavior, to be published by MIT Press in Spring 2025. Thank you for stopping by!

Our Work

We no longer study fan-throated lizards but maybe again someday!

We study and teach about how and why animals interact with one another and with their environments, and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these interactions. Our overarching goal is to understand how behavior both shapes and is shaped by ecological and evolutionary forces. We also take seriously the idea that human identities, perspectives and biases influence and are influenced by animal behavior. Read more here!

People

Ambika with her theodolite in FL. Theodolites are 🔥

Learn more our lab members here!

Core Values

Silhouettes and sunsets are conducive to contemplation

We are building this lab group with intention: learn more about our core values here!

We’re in EBIO @ CU Boulder

Read more about the department here.
Learn about requirements for admission into the grad program here.
Please read this page and contact Ambika Kamath accordingly, if you’re interested in joining the lab!

Get In Touch:

ambika.kamath [at] colorado [dot] edu

Drop By:

TBD

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