Burton Lim

Assistant Curator of Mammals, Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto - Managing Editor Journal of Mammalogy - North American Society for Bat Research Past Board Chair

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

Emerging Risks at the Vampire Bat?Prion Interface: Implications for Wildlife, Livestock, and Public Health https://t.co/hoqyswdSIw
Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal prion disease of cervids, is rapidly expanding across North America

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

We published this article a year ago today in the #OpenAccess journal the @PeerJSTM https://t.co/CfjKplO9j1 🚀 #Biodiversity #Biogeography

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

Contrasting spatial and temporal activity patterns of bats at maternity roosts and swarming sites

https://t.co/ga4pk0v2Ys

[Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto]

Congratulations to the winners of ROM's Wildlife Photo Contest!

A heartfelt thank you to our judges & @HenrysCamera for their generous support!

1st place:

Red Fox Close Encounter with White-tailed Sea Eagle by Philip Wong

(Youth) The Hidden Guardian by Martin Krajc, age 14

[@twoloonsbrewing @twoloonsbrewing]

Guess who is making the return to Winter Craft Beer Festival at The Roundhouse this Saturday? Ok, it’s us. Projected high temp of… zero, but after this winter that’ll seem practically tropical. Come out for the grand debut of our newest beer (👀🇮🇹🤫) #OntarioCraftBeer #TwoLoons

[Australasian Bat Society @AusBats]

🦇A stunning image taken by ABS member Jasmine.
This Eastern Blossom Bat (Syconycteris australis) was coming in every night to feed on the banana flowers so Jasmine had a camera set up for over a month to capture this amazing photograph!

#ausbats #blossombat #bats

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

A Letter to a Young Data Analyst: Learning Before Leaning on AI https://t.co/h5gMONITSy @Dyckologist

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

First comprehensive approach to the systematics of Myotis barquezi using morphology, molecules, and acoustics

https://t.co/sj5S7Xde5t

Specimens of Myotis were collected in Corrientes province, and their characteristics are coincident with those described for M. barquezi.

[Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto]

We spoke to Dr. Burton Lim (Assistant Curator, Mammals) and Dr. Judith Eger (Curator Emeritus, Mammals) about the work on bats that they have done together at ROM since the 1990s. Read more at the link below!

https://t.co/xGucJMf5lf

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

The Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto is also hiring a Curator of Plants & Sustainability. Info on the job can be found here and how to apply https://t.co/DZPhtHmpuR

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

The Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto is hiring a Curator of Birds! https://t.co/KZC6xcU5Gx This link gives more details of the position and how to apply.

[Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto]

The discovery of 6 new bat species in the Philippines has been announced by a team of researchers here at ROM & the @FieldMuseum in Chicago. 🦇

This nocturnal group of mammals is incredibly diverse, and these new discoveries add to the thousands of known bats.

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

You may have wondered how do we clean off skeletons in the bat collections at @ROMtoronto here's the answer just in time for Halloween!

[The Weather Network @weathernetwork]

Flesh-eaters and bloodsuckers are real, and you can find them at the Royal Ontario Museum. 👻🪲🦇

https://t.co/E4pYq09a54

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

Kevin Gausman @BlueJays has a house in midtown and says he enjoys taking his family to @ROMtoronto Go Jays! https://t.co/AUvRqfDm7J

[Burton Lim @burtonlim]

Toronto’s Subway Deer Enigma Unmasked With DNA Analysis -extinct fossil 11,300 years old not closely related to caribou as previously thought but most similar to white-tailed deer genus -antler specimen in @ROMtoronto Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals https://t.co/913OWOToOI

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge.

https://t.co/Yhat4TMVUw

@ConnorBurgin1 @n8_upham

The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

A new species of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the coastal desert of southern Peru

https://t.co/kj4l1WnxeY

A new species of myotine bat from the coastal desert of southern Peru is described using an integrative taxonomic approach.

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

Semi-automated identification of individual Big Brown Bats via collagen-elastin patterns in the wing membrane

https://t.co/CiIsiBPEGQ

We tested if pattern-recognition software could help automate identification of big brown bats based on the collagen-elastin bundle patterns

[Am Soc Mammalogists @Mammalogists]

STABLE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE OCELOT (LEOPARDUS PARDALIS) IN WELL-PRESERVED ATLANTIC FOREST AREAShttps://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf049
Evaluated population dynamics of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) for 14 years (2004 - 2018) in preserved areas of Argentina's Atlantic Forest

[IBRC2025 @IBRC2025]

Medellin, Colombia 2028!
#ibrc2028 #bats #batresearch