Behavioural Ecologist #ConservationBehaviour Taronga Conservation Society🐺🦜@TarongaZoo & Marine Predator Research Group🦭🐧@MPRG_MQ @Macquarie_Uni Views Mine
Sydney, Australia
Joined August 2011
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@apples_dan shows that zoo-bred Regent Honeyeaters prefer the songs of other zoo bred birds. A really important contribution to the conservation efforts of this species. Highlighting how important song tutoring is to the future of the species
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Worldwide lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID severely altered human mobility. Animals such as the coyote traveled longer distances and occurred closer to roads. Animals can modify their behavior in response to rapid changes in human mobility.
doi.org/10.1126/science.abo6…
Skip the famous fur seal is doing well since his release 48 days ago - he’s now foraging south of Tasmania and sending back lots of data | 7NEWS youtu.be/Aiy3YRRzZBQ @tarongazoo @James_HGriffin
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As part of our research on fur seal behaviour in NSW we’re tracking a young rehab seal released off Sydney 🦭 In under a week he’s already headed south of Victoria @tarongazoo @SeaWorldAU @Wildsydharbour youtu.be/ulQ_x_EEjS4
Do you want to see awesome #wildlife in #cameratrap & #trailcam images, and help #science?
Check out our new Dingo? Bingo! Project on #Zooniverse
Identify Australian species and classify images for the Myall Lakes Dingo Project
zooniverse.org/projects/neil… – at Myall Lake, New South Wales
Great to contribute to this vital research led by @RobHeinsohn & @CratesRoss
Models show current efforts only slow the decline of critically #Endangered Regent Honeyeater
Extinction is looming
Zoo breeding is essential but in situ protection also a must
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.@HWConflict rebuilding a failed collar on the side of a track 15 minutes before it was successfully deployed on a Tasmanian devil
Myall Lakes Dingo Project also has a great PhD candidate @BrendanAlting who is working to understand #dingo #behaviour and how we can design management that works in conjunction with sensory and social systems
Apex predators affect smaller carnivore behaviour
African wild dogs prefer den sites that avoid lions but as a consequence have to commute further to hunt link.springer.com/article/10…
@BrendanAlting @Bots_herbs @KrystynaGolabek @PitcherBen @BPCTcamp A Wilson @peanut_possum @HWConflict
ALT A pack of African wild dogs at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo
Strong evidence that Australian sea lions should be listed as Endangered -
Assessment of the status and trends in abundance of a coastal pinniped, the Australian sea lion
doi.org/10.3354/esr01118
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