Courtney "Nuka" Plante

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Nuka

Courtney "Nuka" Plante is a social psychology graduate student at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He associates with the Ontario Furries, Alberta Furries and Kitchener-Waterloo Furries.

Nuka is collaborating with Dr. Kathy Gerbasi ("Dr. G") and several other social psychology researchers in the scientific study of furries and the furry fandom. He was a part of the research team at Anthrocon 2010, Furry Fiesta 2011 and at Anthrocon 2011 and is undertaking an international study of furries through an online survey distributed to furry groups and websites across North America.

The nickname "Nuka" and some of the details of his fursona come from the character Nuka from artist Melissa Jewell (a.k.a Nukascrue) and her (no longer operating) website Mewtopia.

His fursona (and fursuit) is a neon-blue kitty (often wearing some kind of lab coat and goggles) with a love of marshmallows, Lego and science.

Nuka is featured, with other fursuiters, on a furry episode of National Geographic Channel's Taboo.^[1]

Nuka has been diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome.