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Gisela Kaplan
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| Education | Monash University BA(Hons), DipEd, MA, PhD (1984) University of Queensland PhD(Vet.Sc.) (2005) |
| Known for | Research in vocal behaviour, animal communication and cognition |
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| Fields | Ethology, ornithology, primatology |
| Institutions | Monash University, University of New England |
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Gisela Kaplan AM FRSN is an Australian ethologist who primarily specialises in ornithology and primatology. She is a professor emeritus in animal behaviour at the University of New England, Australia, and also honorary professor of the Queensland Brain Institute.
Academic career
Kaplan graduated from Monash University with a Doctor of Philosophy.
She published her first book with Clive Kessler, Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom in 1989, followed by Contemporary Western European Feminism in 1990. In 2005, she submitted a second thesis, titled Vocal behaviour of Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen).
In 2011, Kaplan was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of New England. In 2015, she was conferred honorary fellow of the American Ornithological Society. The following year, she was awarded the status of emeritus professor by the University of New England. She also received the Whitley Award in Behavioural Zoology for her book Bird Minds in 2017.
She has given interviews for ABC Radio.
In March 2021 Kaplan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. She was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for her "significant service to science education through research into animal behaviour".
Personal life
In the 1990s, she began hand-raising and rehabilitating native birds, which she continues to do in her spare time.
