What similarities do all social mammals share? How are we similar to chimpanzees, mountain gorillas and wolves? All social mammals live in groups in order to achieve together what they cannot alone. Ronan Donovan has spent over 20 years studying wildlife, first as a field biologist and later as a photographer and filmmaker for National Geographic. 

This talk will be a deep dive into what it means to be a social mammal from the perspective of our wild kin. In the end, we can learn a great deal about ourselves as we look into the lives of wild animals.