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Protecting the rainforest within | Katherine Amato | TEDxJacksonHole

1,426 views · Published 7 November 2014 · 13:34 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Katherine Amato shares lessons learned from studying primate gut microbes.

Katherine R. Amato is primatologist who does fieldwork and lab work on the impacts of the gut microbiota on host nutrition and health. Most of her fieldwork has been in southeastern Mexico. She is interested in how microbes help their hosts (human or primate) maintain nutrition and health in environments with seasonal changes in food availability.

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