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Postdoc - Wildlife Ecology Lab, NMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera trapping 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦡🦔 • Chelsea FC ⚽🔵 https://robdavisresearch.weebly.com/

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We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩

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It's always an amazing & lucky sighting if you see an #aardvark! 🤩 But this night drive in #MountainZebra NP really delivered! Aardvark, 3x aardwolf, brown hyaena, bat-eared fox! Such an undervisited & amazing park! 🇿🇦🦓 Especially if you like the often overlooked species! 😊 #mammals

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Hot off the press🚨🚨!! Our study looks at densities and distribution of #hedgehogs & #badgers in England & Wales, exploring how food, habitat, & badger density shape hedgehog distributions. @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @richardyarnell.bsky.social @robdavis1104.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Starting a petition to call these two lynx Voodoo and Java! 🤣 @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social #Lynx #Rewilding #Conservation #Wildlife www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Note to self: do more camera trapping work on wine estates... 📸🍷 • They're beautiful 🤩🌿🌾 • There's cool wildlife 🐾 • You can buy good wine when you've finished 🍷🥂 #cameratraps #SouthAfrica

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Seems there are some Botswanan #elephants in South Africa that don't care about fences! 🤣🐘🇿🇦 Elephants and potholes, a true African road in SA! 😆 On the R572 to Mapungubwe NP! 🐘 #Mammals

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

A beautiful place to watch a lion (if you can spot it!) with the Waterberg Mountains in the background! 🤩🦁🐾🇿🇦 #Mammals #Wildlife #Lion #SouthAfrica #Nature

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Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤 Elephants 🐘 - 1 Mostela 📸 - 0 A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘 #mammals #conservationscience 🌍 #elephants

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Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻 Two workshops: • An intro to stats in R • Applied hierarchical modelling The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up! #conservationscience 🌍

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

An interesting/depressing situation in Madikwe GR 🇿🇦 where overpopulation (~2 🐘 per km²) & bush encroachment has led to limited resources & widespread starvation But what to do about it when most SA reserves are also at 🐘 capacity & culling is so controversial? #mammals nspca.co.za/madikwe-game...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

🦁🦁🦁 We are seeking a Research Technician to assist our South Texas Lion Project! Work duties include maintaining our camera traps, investigating kill sites, and participating in lion work-ups. A phenomenal opportunity in the South Texas brush country. See below for more: shorturl.at/aftKp 🦁🦁🦁

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Please keep me updated if you know any other carnivore ecologists that just joined 🦋 so I can add them to the Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/7hdbr6C

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

A couple of cool #spottedhyaena papers came out this week detailing new geographic range extensions & long range movements! 🤩 #conservationscience 🌍 1) The first ever spotted hyaena record from #Egypt! 🇪🇬 500 km north of the species' known distribution range! 🌍 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Wahoo proud supervisor moment! 🤩 My Honours student, Kamil, received the top mark in his class for his research project where we tested the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! 📸🇿🇦🐾 We got some fantastic results & great to see his hard work pay off! 😊

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🚨 New paper in #FoodWebs We report on trophic interactions between #cheetah & #baboon and suggest baboons could be an underreported source of food loss & kleptoparasitism! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Thanks to Wildlife Act in Hluhluwe–iMfolozi for some great 📸! #mammals 🦊

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A positive first post for 🔵☁️ Happy to share our #NatureNote in Ecology & Evolution describing the first #cameratrap images of African wild dogs in Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, Malawi! 📸🇲🇼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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