This week I’m chatting to Mairenn Collins Attwood about why drongos are so aggressive, why avian victims of African cuckoos are so gullible, how an aardvark hole led to a dramatic fieldwork fail, and what a childhood experiment with Haribo taught her about science.

Mairenn Collins Attwood recently finished her MPhil and is about to start her PhD, both in the Spottiswoode Group in the Zoology Department at the University of Cambridge. Mairenn’s MPhil research looked at the relationship between African cuckoos and their hosts, the fork-tailed drongo, in Zambia.

Funky Chunk by Kevin MacLeod