EvOCRO Project

Exploring how crocodiles think and learn.
Behaviour • Evolution • Conservation
EU-funded • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow MSCA

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Welcome to EvOCRO (Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles), the EU-funded project exploring how crocodiles learn and what their minds can teach us about evolution. @evocroproject https://t.co/CdLHkBDiLU

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🐊 Things they don't teach you at university: how to move a crocodile from one area to another.

Fieldwork comes with unexpected skills.

#EvOCRO #InTheField #FieldResearch #MSCA

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🐊 Adult crocodiles are apex predators, but their lives begin very differently.

Eggs and young crocodiles are highly vulnerable and can become prey for many animals, including carnivorous mammals and birds of prey.

#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #Ecology #MSCA

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🐊 Nobody talks about this side of fieldwork.

Not the papers.
Not the conferences.
Just trying to keep everything running when reality gets in the way.

#EvOCRO #FieldResearch #MSCA

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🐊 CROCODILE LESSONS - Crocodiles can have between 60 and 110 teeth depending on the species. Even more impressive: they continuously replace them throughout life. An essential adaptation for predators that can easily lose teeth while hunting. #EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #MSCA

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🐊 EvOCRO has made it to Morocco!

The project is being presented as a poster at the 28th CSG Working Meeting, the Crocodile Specialist Group meeting currently taking place in Morocco.

#EvOCRO #AnimalCognition #FieldResearch #HorizonEurope #MSCA

[Francesca M. Cassola, Ph.D.🐊🐢🪲🐾 @xisca_cassola]

Magdys ya está en la fase 4 🤯 y anda aprendiendo discriminación de objetos y colores!! @raulgmeneses 😁 @lasmamaspresent
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🐊 Crocodylus porosus has one of the strongest bites ever measured in the animal kingdom.

Its bite force can exceed 3,700 PSI — powerful enough to immobilise large prey.

#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #MSCA

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🐊 Follow EvOCRO across all platforms. Fieldwork, animal cognition, science communication and updates from the project — directly from the field. 📷 Join the journey. #EvOCRO #MSCA #HorizonEurope

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Crocodile nesting varies by species 🐊
Some dig, others build mound nests.

Temperature affects development and even sex.
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#EvOCRO #ReptileBiology #MSCA

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Fieldwork means adapting 🐊
Weather changes. Plans change.

The research continues.

#EvOCRO #Fieldwork #MSCA

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[Francesca M. Cassola, Ph.D.🐊🐢🪲🐾 @xisca_cassola]

My supervisor!
I feel very lucky to learn from her!

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Meet another mind behind EvOCRO 🐊

Claudia A.F. Wascher — Project Supervisor, Behavioural Ecology & Animal Cognition.
Her work explores how animals think, behave and adapt.

#EvOCRO #AnimalCognition #BehaviouralEcology #Evolution #MSCA #Cambridge

[Francesca M. Cassola, Ph.D.🐊🐢🪲🐾 @xisca_cassola]

Something not everyone knows is that I really like pins
...and today I had a few @EvOCROProject pins printed...

[Francesca M. Cassola, Ph.D.🐊🐢🪲🐾 @xisca_cassola]

Campeche! Nos vemos al ratito con una super rápida presentación de @EvOCROProject

[Francesca M. Cassola, Ph.D.🐊🐢🪲🐾 @xisca_cassola]

Gracias a Francisco Luna por la invitación
Café Científico @ Menta (Campeche) hablando un poquito de @EvOCROProject

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Fieldwork = more than experiments 🐊
Cleaning, managing, preparing.

That’s where science really happens.

#EvOCRO #InTheField #HorizonEurope #MSCA

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Crocodiles don’t just react - they communicate 🐊

From high-pitched hatchling calls to deep bellows, at least 13 sound types have been identified.

https://t.co/fdek4egyaX

#EvOCRO #AnimalBehaviour #horizoneurope #MSCA

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🐊 What is EvOCRO?

From fieldwork to cognition, from behaviour to adaptation.

Let @xisca_cassola guide you.

#EvOCRO #InTheField #AnimalCognition #HorizonEurope

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Meet Gerardo 🐊
A hatchling already part of our research.
Every behaviour matters.

#EvOCRO #AnimalCognition #MSCA

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You helped us name them 🐊
Here are the names chosen by our community.
Colours match the crocodiles’ ID wristbands.
Which one is your favourite? 👇
#EvOCRO #ScienceEngagement