PhD Candidate @ucalgaryvetmed 🗺️🐗🦠 | MRes @ThinkUHI @ScotSquirrels 🐿️ | MSc @StirUni 🐜 | #invasivespecies #movementecology #conservation | #TeamHB8
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Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
#Beaver dams function as traps which delay the distribution of pollutants, improving the quality of downstream water, new research led by #UofStirling has shown. Find out more: brnw.ch/21wQYh3 @StirlingScience @WWTWorldwide @BamffEcotourism
@BeaverTrust
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Our WCS team in Gabon is supporting critical steps toward peaceful human-elephant co-existence there. bit.ly/3Dbr3VM
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
WILDLIFE NEWS: Researchers are increasingly using environmental DNA to detect species that are hard to find. A new application of the method is allowing scientists to detect four invasive snakes from just one sample in Florida.
Read more here: i.mtrbio.com/rtskikikjv
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
New paper on wild pig survival in the presence of cougars 🐗🐱☠️ @BioInvasions
Cougars rarely killed adult pigs but occasionally killed juveniles. But survival rates remained high even with large carnivores around.
doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-0…
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Our new paper was published on the survival of feral pigs 🐖in the presence of cougars 🐱. Juvenile mortality was mostly due to predation & road kill, not so for adults.
This is part of Mitch's PhD work with CDFW, NWRC, & DoD. We should have more soon!
link.springer.com/article/10…
ALT Three baby feral pigs foraging, all are brown and their faces are not visible - mainly bodies.
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
A new film explores the life of Polish ecologist Simona Kossak, who dedicated herself to the preservation of the Białowieża Forest.
While famous for her eccentric images with wild animals, Kossak was a pioneering scientist and activist, writes Darek Kuźma notesfrompoland.com/2024/11/…
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
This crop of Formby red squirrels experience snow for the first time in their lives and how they loved it!
#formby #redsquirrel #thelastred #gardenredsquirrels
@SonyUK @SquirrelAccord @itvnews @Lancswildlife @NTFormby @FormbyBubble #snow
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to @willpkay and @TiagoALOMarques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration.
request pdf here 👉tinyurl.com/33keh22s
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Our planet is at stake, and so is our health.
The latest WHO guidance outlines practical actions for countries to include health in climate plans to:
🌎 Address health impacts
🌏 Strengthen health systems
🌍 Promote benefits across sectors
More details: bit.ly/48GjjGL #COP29
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
🚨 Join us for an essential webinar on stopping the spread of invasive species! 🌿
📅 Date: November 20, 2024
🕑 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Register today: bit.ly/3zU1CXf
#StopTheSpread #InvasiveSpecies #Webinar #EnvironmentalProtection #NAISMA
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Moo Deng? Who deng? Introducing… Haggis 🏴
Otto and Gloria have welcomed an ADORABLE pygmy hippo calf! She is doing well, but we’ll be keeping the hippo house closed for the time being so that our expert keepers can keep a close eye on mum and baby at this sensitive time 🦛💛
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
The stream of cool stuff happening at the UCVM is never ending!!! Pruvot lab in full swing @ucalgaryvetmed
Vet Med postdoc studies impact of deforestation on wildlife viruses and human health in Cambodia ucalgary.ca/news/vet-med-pos…
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
I had the sweetest surprise today, this little Red squirrel paused and stared right at me, almost like it wanted to say hello. 🤗 Wow!!
What’s been your favorite wildlife moment?
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
📢 We just published a paper about seasonal variations in home range size and behaviour of the endangered Caquetá titi monkey 🐒
Led by Adriana Acero-Murcia 🙌
Download: surl.li/xdercu
#AnimalConservation #Ethology #MovementEcology
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Awesome @AnimalEcology highlight by @SauerScientist on our Nest Parasite Community Science Project @Parasite_Squad 💚
Appropriate that it was published on Halloween👻🪰😂
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
🚨 #BREAKING! Code red for nature: Species population numbers have plunged by 73% on average since 1970.
Ecosystems are near collapse & we're close to tipping points leading to irreversible impacts. URGENT action is needed.
🗣RT to call on leaders to #ActForOurPlanet. #LPR2024
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
Ready for some positive conservation news?🌍
On this week's #ConservationOptimism Round-Up, Greece’s sea turtle nests have reached record numbers and Scotland is preparing to reintroduce wild cattle after over 400 years among other inspiring stories.
buff.ly/404Okl7
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
#STEMfriends! Are you looking for a cool outreach program this year? @LettersPreSci is looking for scientists! 💌
Guess what?! We need more STEM professionals to volunteer as #STEMPenPals this year! Interested in exchanging #SnailMail with a student to demystify STEM and humanize STEM people? Learn more and register now!
prescientist.org/volunteers/
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
I've now shared the experience in a short article 😇 Had to fail to make it to Nature 🤣
My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here's what I did next nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Thank you so much to Jack Leeming Senior careers editor @Nature for his tremendous help 😉
Devin Fitzpatrick retweeted
How fast do our roe deer recover after capture and tagging? Thanks to Jonas Stiegler we could show that these effects diminish within 4-7 days in 42 mammal species and even more quickly for animals in high human activity areas
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#tech4wildlife #wildlife
