The Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP is teaching and research-oriented, with a focus on understanding and conserving the southern African fauna.
Pretoria, South Africa
Joined June 2018
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🦁 Support Candice de Waal (@deWaal153), a PhD student in our department, as she raises $7500 through a crowdfunding initiative by the WDA (@WildlifeDisease). Help her research on African lion genetic diversity and disease resilience. Your contribution matters! #LionConservation
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Nice to see some local coverage of our study! With a quote by co-author Prof Rudi Van Aarde @ZooEntUP
Innovation in elephant dung analysis offers endless benefits for conservation dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
Darren Pietersen reports in @AJWR_SAWMA that large numbers of small- to medium sized vertebrates, including pangolins and tortoises, can be accidentally electrocuted by electric fences in South Africa.
doi.org/10.3957/056.052.0172
So many articles about @ZooEntUP to read in this issue!
The third edition (December 2022) of UP's Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences' (NAS) newsletter (SquaredUP) is available. Read more: bit.ly/3h9yuBR @UPTuks @UPPlantAndSoil @ZooEntUP @AgEconUP1 @ChemistryUP1 @Fabiteam1 @FutureAfricaUP @UPLibrary @MRI_Whale_Unit
Congratulations to Armand Engelbrecht, an MSc Zoology student in @ZooEntUP, for winning the best MSc talk prize at the @InvasionScience 2022 Annual General Meeting!
The prize for best PhD talk is Sipho Mbonani; and the runner up is Laurie Araspin. The prize for the best MSc talk goes to Armand Engelbrecht and the runner up is Dan Van Blerk 👏 #CIBARM2022
A map of landscapes that allow elephant occupation has been generated by combining 1.2 million tracks from 254 elephants with spatial data on environmental factors and human land use across eight southern African countries. @PLOSONE
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
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It's whale season again & we are part of the action!
The Endangered Wildlife Trust has partnered with University of Pretoria: Mammal Research Institute Whale Unit to enable critical research on southern right whales (Eubalaena australis).
#whales #southernrightwhales #research
Representing the Department at the #11thCRICitrusSymposium in the Drakensberg, Tania Pogue, Msizi Ramaoka and Dylan Pullock presented their posters on fruit fly and psyllid surveillance and management.
@citrusresearch
Tania Pogue, Dylan Pullock and Msizi Ramaoka representing the Department at the #11thCitrusResearchSymposium in the Drakensberg.
They will be presenting their research on fruit fly and psyllid surveillance and management.
@citrusresearch
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FIGHTING FRUIT FLIES:
Meet the 27-year-old FBIP-funded student who is doing her bit to fight fruit fly infestations across the country. Read the full story: bit.ly/3vcfFBK
@UPnasagric
Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria theconversation.com/artifici… via @TC_Africa
In a review, Heike Lutermann proposes that social mole-rats reduce their exposure and susceptibility to parasites by living in sealed burrow systems and using group defences. @FrontEcolEvol @ResearchUP
doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.87…
Learn more about bees and other pollinators, our Social Insects Research Group, and activities that are planned to celebrate World Bee Day, by following the link below.
up.ac.za/zoology-entomology/…
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GIS and Risk Analysis Workshop!!
Register on the link below to attend.
Link:docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
PhD student and @Fabiteam1 affiliate @ElisaPal2 reports with her @INRAE_France colleagues that pesticides, alone and in mixtures, trigger important, systemic oxidative stress that could explain their toxicity to honey bees.
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Graduate opportunity at Moepathusi Geo-Environmental Solutions.
Closing date: 07 April 2022
#JobSeekersSA
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The Cape Leopard Trust is seeking a research assistant to assist with an MSc project conducting interviews to investigate leopard presence, threats to leopards, and attitudes towards leopards across the Western Cape.
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The EWT has a new #ConservationCanine #Cadet in training!
This new Cadet needs a name! After watching him in action, what would you name him?
If your name wins, you will be invited to our conservation campus for a dog demonstration and a chance to meet our #EWTPawsOnPatrol
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Fruit SA is hiring! We're looking for a dynamic intern to join our team. Apply before 6 April 2022. See details here: fruitsa.co.za/wp-content/upl…
Honest Machekano suggests in Current Opinion in Insect Science that agricultural production and food security in Afrotropical regions is susceptible to invasive insect pests, which have wide tolerance of environmental extremes. @ResearchUP @UPnasagric
doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.…
