Page for the Applied behavioural ecology & Conservation Lab at HKU led by @hannahsmumby, studying human-animal relationships & their implications.
Hong Kong University
Joined July 2020
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📣Opportunity for German undergraduate students📣
Summer internship funded by DAAD on Lantau Buffalo personality. Come to Hong Kong and discover more about these free ranging animals.
Project number HK-BI_BI-5996.
daad.de/rise/en/rise-worldwi…
Open position: Research Assistant II - HK Dolphin and Wild Boar Projects
Join our team at HKU! Dive into the Hong Kong Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and Wild Boar Projects, employing anthropology and ecology methods to explore human-animal interactions.
🐗🌿 Dr Hannah Mumby and research assistant, Sammi, led a group of CityU students on a field trip to Aberdeen to explore human-wild boar interaction. The students gained a deeper understanding of conservation and sustainability in urban areas. A valuable experience for all!
Lab members @yfw393 & @CSarabian recently participated in a 'silkscreen printing' workshop from @HKUniversity Museum and Art Gallery. And they picked up the HK Wild Boar Project logo as an experimental image! After a couple of trials...👍
Introducing a new member - Dr Yingwei Chen
Yingwei’s postdoc project at HKU investigates the implications of the ivory ban in China. This project aims to examine whether the rules and laws under the ban sufficiently combat the illegal ivory trade in the country.
Introducing a new member - Dr Cécile Sarabian (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Cécile will mainly work on the Hong Kong Wild Boar Project, where she aims to develop applications of disgust-related avoidance behaviours both in wild boars and people to mitigate negative interactions.
Well done to @Hannah_B_Tilley for winning people's choice in the poster competition at #EBRS2021! Well done too to all the other presenters.
ALT Tilley sands by her poster with PI Hannah and post-doc Derek.
Wow, one year of the lab page! Looking forward to bringing you more in the next year. #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Introducing Sagarika Phalke- a PhD student at our lab! She has an MSc in the Psychology of human-animal interactions from the University of Stirling, UK. She looks at elephant-human interaction and the conditions that wild captive elephants are in based off of that.
One of our projects looks interactions between elephants in captivity and their handlers. This shared history creates a unique perspective to conduct research on interspecies relationships. Check out more on hannahsmumby.co.uk/blog, and the writer @sagarika1312 for more info!
Happy Birthday to PhD researcher @Hannah_B_Tilley! The group celebrated today with a chocolate and banana cake from thegoodcakehk thegoodcake.org
Introducing Yifu Wang - a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ABEC lab!
She completed her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University and obtained her PhD from Cambridge University. Her research looks at human-wild boar interactions within HK and hopes to influence policies.
We celebrated the birthdays of lab members Even (PhD student) and Kaja (Post-doc) today! They safely fanned out the candles 🎂
In case you were wondering, it was with hojicha cheese cake and Yuki chiffon cake from Jomo coffee and cake!
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Excited to announce our Careers and publishing seminar with Dr. Charlotte Payne, Associate Editor at Nature Human Behaviour about her career trajectory & scientific publishing!
Taking place 30th September (Wednesday) 2020 4PM (UTC +08:00). Sign up here:
hku.zoom.us/meeting/register…
Check out our webpage for more info on our studies. hannahsmumby.co.uk/wildboar
ALT Project logo with Hong Kong cityscape in the background and two pigs in the foreground, one adult and one infant. Text of the Hong Kong Wild Boar Project in stylised traditional Chinese characters