Hodges has two oestrus hinds today, Baru and Squilla #mammals #deer #science #evobio

Hannah Lemon gave a very clear and interesting talk about social inheritance of social relationships from mothers to their daughters and sons (to a lesser extent) in the Rum red deer @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social. @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Thrilled to share my first first-author paper from my work with the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project! @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social We found that host density acts to increase parasitism through two mechanisms: increased exposure and increased susceptibility. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Peridot19 is also back. His father is Wisdom11 (now dead), the stag with the most offspring by far in our group of study animals.

Coypu19, left and his father Longbeys in 2018, the year he was conceived.

Coypu19 is back in the study area for the rut and he is looking very impressive for a 6 year old.

Due to storm damage and blocked tracks we will have to walk 5 miles to the study site to check on infrastructure there and see how the deer coped with Storm Floris!

Calving Team 2025 1st instalment @celestineadelmant.bsky.social Eve Morris @seanofrum.bsky.social @sarah-dobson.bsky.social Prof Josephine Pemberton and Ali Morris @isleofrum.bsky.social

At this time of year, it is very difficult to spot deer. How many can you make out in this picture?

A beautiful, but chilly morning here in the study area, although Askival just has to create a cloud all of it's own.

After 48hrs of wet and stormy weather, we have ventured out in a mere gale to find the Glen flooded.

Uhura watching me go by. She is now part of a family whose names are influenced by Star Trek characters.

Making the most of the cold east wind weather to get another census done. A bit of snow at the highest point

Thread This recent article in The Scotsman newspaper @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social perpetuates a statement in the Scottish Government's recent consultation on deer management that the calving season of red deer is getting later www.scotsman.com/hays-way/sco...

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Researchers from Biology have collaborated with 'Then Try This' to create 'Nergal' - a game to help understand how social networks and decision-making, change how diseases spread through communities Read more and play Nergal: edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Genomic analysis reveals a polygenic architecture of antler morphology in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) Paper by Peters, Huisman, Kruuk, Pemberton and @susanjohnston.bsky.social antler morphology is highly repeatable over an individual's lifetime 🧪 #mammals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate. Paper by @annamhew.bsky.social using Rum Deer Research data #science #mammals academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Hewett: inbreeding depression in red deer varies over space and interacts with environmental conditions - stronger reduction in juvenile survival with harsh environment academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Thanks to my amazing supervisors: Josephine Pemberton and @susanjohnston.bsky.social , and my lovely co-authors too Greg Albery and @seanofrum.bsky.social and Ali Morris at @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social Slightly surreal that the PhD is now 'officially' finished ... but who knows 😉

Turritella and her 24 this morning

Malabar and her 24 on the #isleofrum this morning #mammals

Slate and her 23 this morning

A good, but slightly cold and snowy day of fieldwork today.

In 2024 Professor Josephine Pemberton received the British Ecological Society’s highest honour. Professer Pemberton is one of the PI's on the Rum Deer Project biology.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We are currently making up collars that will be fitted to female calves in the calving season. We are currently adding buckles before painting on the patterns.

Worth a follow to know where excellent data come from.

Hello we are now on Bluesky. This is a photo of Viriota 21, a recent photo of a 3 year old stag in the study are on the Isle of Rum #isleofrum #mammals #addMam

We have moved to Bluesky. Find us at http://rumdeerresearch.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/rumdeerresearch.bsky.social

This is Eddy16 taking a break a couple of days ago, showing that it's not always all go during the rut.

Kilmory Glen and beach today. The river remained in flood all day, but the full rut census was still completed.

Sepal09 is our other hummel and he's a bit of a cheeky chappy. This pic is from earlier this season, when we could actually see what we were doing. Seems like it just hasn't stopped raining lately.

Handa15 isanother hummel we know, until this year when something funny antler-y has happened on his RHS. Very odd.

Wisdom11 is dominating the whole of the north glen, but does still fight as seen here by his broken R brow tip.

Boreray11 is conserving energy. Hopefully his luck will change.

This is Longbeys, who we estimate to be 14. He's lucky that his hinds like it in this sheltered spot.

This is Auk today in a sheltered spot enjoying the sunshine and a ruminate.

This is Menura's calf. Although she was not caught (her mum is sneaky), we recognise her by those enormous ears.

Leftip was also in fine fettle after the rain stopped, sporting a rather fancy clump of moss on his antler.

And Scottie was enjoying a roaringly good wallow once the worst of the rain had passed.

Today the weather has been challenging, but Aye15 still seems keen.

Featuring the Deer Project now available to watch on BBC iPlayer Scotland - The New Wild, Series 1: Episode 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001qs6z via @bbciplayer

The Deer Project will be featured in this episode 🙂

Wisdom11 is cleaning the velvet from his antlers and is very hassled by the foliage. As seen from our kitchen window this morning

Comanche calved on 2nd June just after your visit. Here is her calf hiding in the grass. 1/2 @itvnews @LouiseScottITV

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