Postdoc @WildEcoLabNMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • PhD @NTU_ARES 🇲🇼🐆🍪 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera traps 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦔🦡 • @ChelseaFC fan ⚽
Wilderness, South Africa
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Stoked to see this paper out! 🤩
🚨 New #OA paper from @WildEcoLabNMU in @ConservationSP 🤩
Led by Marna Visagie, @HoniballT & @RobDavis1104 we estimate spotted hyaena population density in @SANParksAENP and assess the influence of sex on SCR parameters! 📸🐾
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Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores 🐾📸
New blog post out! 👇
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Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last Sept for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a huge help & all our students are now progressing well with their spatial data analysis!
Sign up for the full course & also see our beautiful George Campus! 🐾🌿🇿🇦
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📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/worksh… 🐾
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Enjoy the footage of this cheetah going past Hotel Anokhi in Sheopur!
#WATCH | Cheetah Flees Enclosures Of Kuno National Park; Seen Wandering In Sheopur's Residential Area
#MadhyaPradesh #Cheetah #kunonationalpark #mpnews
Seems like elephants aren't keen on small carnivore camera trapping! 🤣🐘😤
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Elephant - 1
A good trunk selfie though! 🤣🐘
#Elephantsandfieldworkdontmix
#Elephants
#Cameratrap
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🚨New research on Uganda’s largest carnivore survey in @ELSenviron GECCO! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 🦁26,000 km driven, 232 camera sites show lions in decline in Kidepo and QE, but hope in Murchison (240 🦁). Hyenas faring well, leopards strong in Murchison & Mburo. Our work brings together >100 collaborators, 47 authors, and 20 NGOs together across six protected areas.
A couple of cool #spottedhyaena papers came out this week detailing new geographic range extensions & long range movements! 🤩
1) The first spotted hyaena record from #Egypt! 🇪🇬 500 km north of the species' known distribution range! 🌍
@HyaenaSG
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
2) Beytell et al. documented multiple long-range dispersal events of large carnivores in northern Namibia! 🇳🇦🦁
Included in these records was a #spottedhyaena that spent 254 days in a dispersal phase, covering 5000+ km! 🤯
📸 Beytell et al. (hyaena = blue line)
Apart from 3 days in Etosha NP (everybody needs a holiday 😆), the entire dispersal phase was outside of protected areas - highlighting the remarkable ability of large carnivores to move through anthropogenic landscapes!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Excited to see this out! This paper started off as a presentation at the @imidibaniso_sc Eco-Communications Symposium in 2022 and it’s been a long journey to its final form…
Thank you to special issue editors Mehita Iqani and Meghan Judge 👏
✨New paper ✨ leveraging the internet's obsession with cat videos to drive Open Science 😺
Open Access article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT Caracal in the fynbos. Image by Gilbert Reinhardt
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Social media can help aid wildlife conservation efforts through public awareness and engagement, finds new study
@GabiLeighton says attractive species can be more successful in gaining public interest and awareness to help conservation efforts 🐈
spr.ly/6017SaaVh
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2,000 guys in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania after deciding the future of planet earth every 4 years
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Verschueren et al. conducted a mammal survey in the Ondjou Conservancy in Namibia, an understudied area in the KAZA TCA. Analysing 317,758 camera-trap images, they identified 18 carnivore species, finding occurrence increased further from the main village: doi.org/npb8
ALT Left: First page of the article titled 'High carnivore richness despite human pressure and prey depletion in the south-west of the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area'. Top right: a brown hyaena and a camera trap used in the study. Bottom right: Occupancy modelling results, showing species specific estimates of site use and probability of detection.
Awesome weekend at #Embizweni cottage in @SANParksKrNP! 🤩
Totally remote, complete silence and didn't see another car/person all weekend! 😁 A proper Karoo experience and a top place to stay across all the SA national parks! 🇿🇦
#KarooNationalPark
An important framework for large carnivore monitoring moving forward! 🦁🐾📸
Our new @CommsBio paper highlights Ugandan wildlife tourism ranger efforts in tracking & protecting lions in the Nile Delta. Time to bring these unsung heroes to the forefront of monitoring efforts! 🦁🌿 #ugandan #Rangers nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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📢I am recruiting a PhD student in applied quantitative ecology .@FCFCMontana .@umontana to work on large mammal monitoring. More information: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/…
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We had an amazing week at the @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2024 in Windhoek! 🇳🇦🦓
From the road trip up to Windhoek (via Sossusvlei), to an excellent and jam packed conference excellently hosted by @Save_Giraffe 🦒, the whole week was a blast! 🤩 Some great lab presentations too!
