This is becoming real 😅

Something cool to start your weekend: a Blue Jay x Green Jay hybrid from Texas! #ornithology

Lions across Africa are under threat from habitat loss, poaching, and wildlife trade. A continent-wide survey of 132 lion subpopulations was conducted in collaboration with landscape managers and lion researchers to determine perceived threat severity. [1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

I need one! "The Publish or Perish Game is a humorous party game about academic publishing. Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research and delivering "very helpful" comments, Reviewer 2 style." publishorperish.games

Every week is FatBear week! 😁 bsky.app/profile/glob...

#Wildlife population counts are only population size estimates, always wrong but some more than others - here technology suggests 50% out! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference! Go Yasmin! Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social

Wildfire and Drought Alter the Ecology of Jaguars and Co‐Occurring Mammals in the World's Largest Wetland 🔗 buff.ly/tNzo2KM

Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey. Cool paper !! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New on European conservation science: Wolf-dog hybridization can rapidly increase without intervention. Model shows sterilization or removal of hybrids reduces admixture. Success depends on mate choice, immigration & mortality by humans. Santostasi et al. in Cons. Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great 🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟

You're not alone 😬

📢New paper 📢 MS student Clara Dawson's 1st chapter is out! Does increased habitat connectivity always increase wildlife-vehicle collision rates? No! We found nonlinear effects of connectivity on wildlife-vehicle collisions Free access: rdcu.be/emUU3

Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇

Pro tip for writers: Your abstract cannot be an afterthought It’s the most important paragraph in your paper—often the only one people read Make every word count!

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽 New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team @diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🛰️🐦 Bio-logging can fundamentally reshape how we measure conservation success—from individuals ➡️ populations ➡️ species. 4/

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

From the archives: Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I guess this is now official

"Observation of a radio-telemetered female Burmese python that ingested an adult white-tailed deer, retained the deer within the digestive tract for 10 days, and then vomited the deer...The python survived the vomiting and was alive at the time of publication" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Once widespread throughout much of Asia, the wild dog known as the dhole has disappeared from more than 75% of its historical range, according to the IUCN. In Nepal, there are an estimated 500 dholes remaining, but recent sightings suggest they may be making a comeback.

Etorphine induces pathophysiology in immobilized white rhinoceros through sympathomimesis that is attenuated by butorphanol academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Not all Iberian lynx movements are the same 🐾 Using GPS data of 124 lynxes we found that: -Resident lynxes avoided human areas -Dispersers tolerated crossing them -Reintroduced lynxes were particularly cautious in their new environments A remarkable plasticity for living in heterogeneous landscapes

🚨 new research: "movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human-modified landscapes" 📝 read the full paper here: buff.ly/T24zHuT @santiagosaura.bsky.social @pabcis.bsky.social @aitorgaston.bsky.social

New paper in Ecology! We show how to incorporate basically any animal behavior into ecological networks models: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Editorial summary of responses from reviewer #1 and reviewer #2

‼️195 Rhinos Poached in First Half of 2025‼️ As part of their G20 Presidency South Africa’s Environment Minister Dr Dion George has announced high-level #rhinopoaching numbers for the first half of 2025. Find more detail in our newest article ⬇️ helpingrhinos.org/195-rhinos-l...

Behavioural responses of brown bears to helicopter capture vist.ly/3yjtb #bear #capture_effects #field_surgery

At the Musekese Conservation research station in Zambia, trainee field ecologist Chisomo M’hango analyzes camera trap images of leopards, lions and wild dogs. M’hango says lion numbers are starting to rise, signaling renewed efforts to prevent poaching in the park is bearing fruit.

12 independently evolved ant-eater lineages in the mammalian family tree phys.org/news/2025-07...

Until recently, rabies had never been seen in marine mammals.

Identifying areas of high snaring risk in Kruger National Park: A novel citizen science approach for carnivore conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sample size guidelines for mapping migration corridors and population distributions using tracking data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

Wildlife-vehicle risk assessment along Yellowstone’s western boundary: Implications for ecological connectivity and road safety www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.” Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

It's this time of the year again😍

Seems obvious to me?

Multi-scalar #habitat selection unveils ecological domains in #wolves when selecting rendezvous sites - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #wolf #carnivores #Apennines

Since 2 July 2025, all data in the Copernicus Climate Data Store and Atmosphere Data Store has shifted to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC-BY). Get the full details: forum.ecmwf.int/t/cc-by-lice...

El lince ibérico, ¿por dónde se mueve y qué hábitats prefiere? Respondemos diferenciando sus preferencias en las áreas de campeo, residencias transitorias, excursiones y dispersiones. Analizando los datos proporcionados por 124 linces con collares GPS. Recién publicado. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

We also simulated grizzly movement for different future scenarios and found increased road building and mining decreased functional connectivity for bears in this area. Maps provided can help inform grizzly bear management and conservation planning.

Very excited to share this paper led by my former postdoc, Eric Palm, and collaborated on with a stellar team of scientists conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @claytontlamb.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social @melaniedickie.bsky.social @jmnorthrup.bsky.social

🦭 Rabies has reached the ocean🧪For Resurgence & Ecologist, I reported on the world’s first known outbreak among marine mammals, Cape fur seals off South Africa🌍A rare One Health wake-up call🌐 resurgence.org/magazine/article6499-rabies-at-sea.html #Wildlife #OneHealth #AnimalHealth #Conservation

Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions