Uniting animal care professionals and academics (across disciplines and taxa) who share common #ZooResearch, open-science goals | Tweets by Leadership Team
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Check out this event from the @TheManyManys team! Date & time: November 24, 10–11 a.m. (ET)
Speakers: Krista Byers-Heinlein, Erin Buchanan, Nicholas Coles, & Kyndal Irwin
Register here: airtable.com/applafE4pI8WB..…
Applications are now open for the 2026 Advancing Minority Leadership in Aquariums & Zoos (AMLAZ) Program! Due 10/31. Funding available! @MIAZS_Now docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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🖐️🐘Is touching an animal important for visitors? Does species matter for making a connection?
Check out our paper comparing stingray and elephant experiences, and touch vs. in-person vs. video experiences 📹 @okczoo #visitorstudies #conservationintent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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🚨 Event Alert! 🚨Curious about putting #OpenScience into practice in comparative cognition? 🐦👶Join our FREE OPEN #webinar on Sept 12 with @emmatecwyn & Dr. Ben Farrar🐸🐐Open to ALL interested in animal & comparative cognition🐒🐙Details & registration: manymanys.github.io/events/
🧐Did you know? You can join our Discord community by signing our Code of Conduct: manyzoos.weebly.com/code-of-…
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📢📰What is #ManyZoos? Our founders just published a concept paper! 🥳 We are very grateful to MZ committee members, mentors, and reviewers & are excited for what the future holds! #ZooBiology #AZA #EAZA #WAZA #BIAZA @innova_tori @DrElliephants @Drfayclark @lisapbarrett
🦁Today we attended the #AZA Felid TAG conference! We are soliciting input on our proposed methods for MZ1. You can find out more here: docs.google.com/.../1wYIzNJe…... #ZooScience #ManyZoos
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🥳News update!!!🤩 MM has won an Open Scholarship Catalytic Award by @ORCA_Open! The award will support #OpenScience training for our network as we get closer to data collection for MM1. Stay tuned for details on upcoming open webinars! Learn more here: manymanys.github.io/2025-07-…
🐯🐺Today we shared our MZ1 pilot study of the range size hypothesis at the @AnimBehSociety
conference! If you missed our talk, check out our MZ1 information "packet" here: bit.ly/mz1interest #ABS2025 #ZooScience
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If anyone can help my PhD student by answering a questionnaire on canine obesity we'd be supremely grateful!
Please share as more responses are needed for my PhD questionnaire 😊🐕❤️ @HarperAdamsUni
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Lisa Barrett @lisapbarrett and Ellen Williams @DrElliephants are at the International Symposium on Zoo Animal Welfare at @brookfield_zoo this week! It was elefantastic to see some of our members there #ISZAW
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Back from a fabulous day @dudleyzoo with the @HarperAdamsUni first years, giving a flavour of the sorts of industries our animal sciences students may go on to work in! Amazing talks by Eve and Ollie. And a lovely day with @PowlesJayne and Emma!
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Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbvWg9
ALT Reversal learning with humans and non-human primates.
ALT Reversal learning with ungulates, rodents, fishes, and marine invertebrates.
ALT Reversal learning with birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
🦁1 week left to apply to join our 2025 committees! We are especially looking for folks to assist with getting MZ1 off the ground, so if you are excited about funding be sure to sign up! #ZooScience 🐊
🐯📢We are looking for additional committee members to support our goals! Apply here by 2/21 (bit.ly/2025committees) to join our awesome committees! 🦩🌍 #ZooScience #ManyZoos
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Apply for a conservation, research or captive care grant up to the value of £1250! Applications must be submitted by the 1st March. For information about how to apply, and previous projects funded by PSGB, see the grants page of our website: buff.ly/48dv99h
🐯📢We are looking for additional committee members to support our goals! Apply here by 2/21 (bit.ly/2025committees) to join our awesome committees! 🦩🌍 #ZooScience #ManyZoos
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Feeling v lucky! First Ghanaian sunset, ice cream and sheeps (not goats, goats are later!). Being a more common and less clever version of @SkylarkHolly for the week, supporting @EMashatise on a scoping exercise identifying areas for sustainable goat production in Africa!
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There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025
ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in
Make sure you also follow @ASABSpring2025 & @Behaviour2025 for updates 😄
ALT ASAB Important Upcoming Dates Logo of animals crossing the street as in the Beatles Abbey Road 2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK Apr 23-25 Feb 1: ASAB travel grants due Feb 12: Abstracts due Apr 1: Registration ends Logo of a stylised tiger looking up at a tree and sun Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30 Jan 31: Abstracts due Feb 28: Early bird registration ends Apr 1: ASAB travel grants due Apr 30: Regular registration ends