Mammal Research

@MammRes

International Springer journal publishing research and comments across mammalian biology. #ecology #behavior #conservation #physiology #genetics #evolution

Białowieża, Poland

Joined October 2014

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MammRes retweeted

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Watch as a fox dodges a falcon’s capture not once, not twice, but three times

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World Wildlife Fund

@World_Wildlife

about 1 year ago

Watch these beautiful Amur leopards! This camera trap footage shows an Amur leopard with three playful cubs in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park. It’s the world’s largest protected area for tigers and leopards. Learn more: https://t.co/SdfOU6bCKD.

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Mammal Research @MammRes

over 1 year ago

#OA #OpenAccess article on large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals https://t.co/ijgi7RQagd

MammRes's tweet photo. #OA #OpenAccess article on large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals
https://t.co/ijgi7RQagd https://t.co/JuGhvTgnsO

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Mammal Research @MammRes

over 1 year ago

Grant opportunity below https://t.co/BvWrYouAZE

Animal Cognition @SpringerANCO

over 1 year ago

The incredible Morris Animal Foundation is now accepting Equine Behavior Research Proposals https://t.co/yt7ndz8Fmo Applications must be received by 4:59 PM ET on Wednesday, March 19, 2025

SpringerANCO's tweet photo. The incredible Morris Animal Foundation is now accepting Equine Behavior Research Proposals
https://t.co/yt7ndz8Fmo
Applications must be received by 4:59 PM ET on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 https://t.co/GdIVeO9EZW

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WildCRU, Oxford

The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU)'s mission is to transform wildlife conservation through world-class research, training and implementation

The IFM encourages international cooperation, promotion, and understanding of the Earth’s mammal fauna.

IUCN SSC Small Mammal SG

Science and conservation for the world’s 3200+ small mammal species 🐿️🐀🦔🐭

Mammal Research @MammRes

over 1 year ago

Trump administration pulls wildlife report https://t.co/PnRs6S0kXF

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over 1 year ago

Constricted range and limited genetic variation in Reig’s Grass Mouse Akodon reigi (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in the Southern Campos (South America). Read for free here: https://t.co/NsqOCEnQmC

MammRes's tweet photo. Constricted range and limited genetic variation in Reig’s Grass Mouse Akodon reigi (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in the Southern Campos (South America).
Read for free here: https://t.co/NsqOCEnQmC https://t.co/EIrd0ZZ7BV

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#OA Study compares different camera traps designs for sampling small mammals https://t.co/TUZHNpRTzj

MammRes's tweet photo. #OA Study compares different camera traps designs for sampling small mammals
https://t.co/TUZHNpRTzj https://t.co/CTwvnmyEOP

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over 1 year ago

Photo by Wilson44691 Public domain

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Activity patterns of an arboreal and semi-arboreal mammal community Study by E. García-Casimiro & A. Santos-Moreno Read for free: https://t.co/gk36FmiDXM

MammRes's tweet photo. Activity patterns of an arboreal and semi-arboreal mammal community
Study by E. García-Casimiro & A. Santos-Moreno
Read for free: https://t.co/gk36FmiDXM https://t.co/ZFNpYIZppA

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over 1 year ago

Photo by David Monniaux

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over 1 year ago

What do we discover when we track 23 Alpine marmots? The findings are packed in the paper "Late summer spatial behaviour of Alpine marmots in the Eastern Italian Alps: effects of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers" by A. Forti and colleagues. Read for free: https://t.co/8Ed1rRCfTu

MammRes's tweet photo. What do we discover when we track 23 Alpine marmots?
The findings are packed in the paper "Late summer spatial behaviour of Alpine marmots in the Eastern Italian Alps: effects of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers" by A. Forti and colleagues.
Read for free: https://t.co/8Ed1rRCfTu https://t.co/JMj0VMJUge

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ASCEL @ascel_lobo

over 1 year ago

Politics not science, behind Commission’s downgrade plan. If you are a scientist/student & object to the EU’s decision to support the European Commission’s proposal to downgrade protection of the wolf 🐺, please sign: https://t.co/6kKxDIwgGc

ascel_lobo's tweet photo. Politics not science, behind Commission’s downgrade plan.
If you are a scientist/student & object to the EU’s decision to support the European Commission’s proposal to downgrade protection of the wolf 🐺, please sign:
https://t.co/6kKxDIwgGc https://t.co/zIFoXx1fPV

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over 1 year ago

Sad to hear these stories but reality of the wildlife-human conflict...

Voyageurs Wolf Project

@VoyaWolfProject

over 1 year ago

In late July, we received a mortality signal from Wolf O4D’s collar. O4D was the breeding female of the Windsong Pack, and the wolf that persistently attempted—and in Summer 2023 often succeeded—to get on the large ranch we had fenced off so she could eat calf poop. Of course, we fenced the ranch specifically to keep wolves off of it so her behavior was very frustrating…more on that below. We hiked out to O4D's last location and found her body beneath a large spruce tree. She was thin and emaciated. We weighed her and she was 37 lbs. We couldn’t see any visible injuries. However, in late June, we suspected, based on substantial changes in O4D’s movements, that she had been hit by a car after crossing Highway 53, the main highway going through our area. In fact, two days after we suspected she had been hit, we thought she was dead near the highway because she had not moved. We hiked out to check but she wasn’t there. She had moved a few hundred meters away and bedded down. Slowly, she started moving in what seemed like a more typical pattern for wolves in the summer. I.e., traveling long distances and then bedding. We suspected maybe she had been injured but was recovering. But the fact she died about 3 weeks later from apparent starvation seemed too coincidental so after we found her body, we sent it in for a necropsy (an animal autopsy). The autopsy found that she had substantial injuries to her pelvis and back legs that were consistent with a vehicle collision. Specifically, the ligament attaching her back right leg to her pelvis completely ruptured and her right femur was displaced from the socket. She also had several fractures in her pelvis as well. Interestingly, the necropsy also found O4D had extensive trematode/fluke burden (i.e., parasites) in her bile ducts and liver which could have contributed to physical deterioration. In the end, she tried to keep going after being hit by a vehicle but she was likely never going to recover from such injuries. And the injuries clearly inhibited her ability to get food, and so she starved. Now we know some will be upset and claim we should have captured her and sent her to rehab. However, we had no idea of what condition she was in or the extent of her injuries, and couldn’t have gotten close enough to observe her if we wanted to. And capturing a specific wolf that was still moving substantially by human standards and who definitely would not have wanted to be captured would have been exceedingly difficult even if we wanted to do that. Anyway, Wolf O4D was a unique wolf that taught us critical lessons about what is needed to prevent wolf-livestock conflict. She, through her frustrating desire to get on this ranch, showed us where all of our weaknesses were and how we had to fortify the fence to prevent wolves from getting on. In fact, we think without her wearing a GPS-collar, the fence project probably would have been a failure because without that we would have known a wolf or wolves were getting on the ranch but would have had no idea where, or how to stop them. That would have led to increasing frustration and the depressing feeling that the fence just wasn’t working. But thank goodness of all the wolves to have collared we had the one wolf that was fixated with getting on that ranch. With a 7.5 mile fence line on the ranch, it is very hard to isolate the 1-2 foot section where a wolf is sliding under the fence. Having a GPS-collared wolf makes this much much easier. In Summer 2023, the first summer after we the fence was fully installed, O4D tested our patience repeatedly but we eventually learned how to thwart her attempts. And we felt pretty confident that if we could stop her, we could almost certainly stop most every wolf. And so in Summer 2024, the ranch had its first year in about 2 decades, per the rancher's recollection, without any depredations or missing calves that were likely killed by wolves. All was quiet and peaceful. Not sure that would have happened without the knowledge we gleaned from having Wolf O4D collared these past 2 years.

$VoyaWolfProject's tweet photo. In late July, we received a mortality signal from Wolf O4D’s collar. O4D was the breeding female of the Windsong Pack, and the wolf that persistently attempted—and in Summer 2023 often succeeded—to get on the large ranch we had fenced off so she could eat calf poop. Of course, we fenced the ranch specifically to keep wolves off of it so her behavior was very frustrating…more on that below. We hiked out to O4D's last location and found her body beneath a large spruce tree. She was thin and emaciated. We weighed her and she was 37 lbs. We couldn’t see any visible injuries. However, in late June, we suspected, based on substantial changes in O4D’s movements, that she had been hit by a car after crossing Highway 53, the main highway going through our area. In fact, two days after we suspected she had been hit, we thought she was dead near the highway because she had not moved. We hiked out to check but she wasn’t there. She had moved a few hundred meters away and bedded down. Slowly, she started moving in what seemed like a more typical pattern for wolves in the summer. I.e., traveling long distances and then bedding. We suspected maybe she had been injured but was recovering. But the fact she died about 3 weeks later from apparent starvation seemed too coincidental so after we found her body, we sent it in for a necropsy (an animal autopsy). The autopsy found that she had substantial injuries to her pelvis and back legs that were consistent with a vehicle collision. Specifically, the ligament attaching her back right leg to her pelvis completely ruptured and her right femur was displaced from the socket. She also had several fractures in her pelvis as well. Interestingly, the necropsy also found O4D had extensive trematode/fluke burden (i.e., parasites) in her bile ducts and liver which could have contributed to physical deterioration. In the end, she tried to keep going after being hit by a vehicle but she was likely never going to recover from such injuries. And the injuries clearly inhibited her ability to get food, and so she starved. Now we know some will be upset and claim we should have captured her and sent her to rehab. However, we had no idea of what condition she was in or the extent of her injuries, and couldn’t have gotten close enough to observe her if we wanted to. And capturing a specific wolf that was still moving substantially by human standards and who definitely would not have wanted to be captured would have been exceedingly difficult even if we wanted to do that. Anyway, Wolf O4D was a unique wolf that taught us critical lessons about what is needed to prevent wolf-livestock conflict. She, through her frustrating desire to get on this ranch, showed us where all of our weaknesses were and how we had to fortify the fence to prevent wolves from getting on. In fact, we think without her wearing a GPS-collar, the fence project probably would have been a failure because without that we would have known a wolf or wolves were getting on the ranch but would have had no idea where, or how to stop them. That would have led to increasing frustration and the depressing feeling that the fence just wasn’t working. But thank goodness of all the wolves to have collared we had the one wolf that was fixated with getting on that ranch. With a 7.5 mile fence line on the ranch, it is very hard to isolate the 1-2 foot section where a wolf is sliding under the fence. Having a GPS-collared wolf makes this much much easier. In Summer 2023, the first summer after we the fence was fully installed, O4D tested our patience repeatedly but we eventually learned how to thwart her attempts. And we felt pretty confident that if we could stop her, we could almost certainly stop most every wolf. And so in Summer 2024, the ranch had its first year in about 2 decades, per the rancher's recollection, without any depredations or missing calves that were likely killed by wolves. All was quiet and peaceful. Not sure that would have happened without the knowledge we gleaned from having Wolf O4D collared these past 2 years.$

$VoyaWolfProject's tweet photo. In late July, we received a mortality signal from Wolf O4D’s collar. O4D was the breeding female of the Windsong Pack, and the wolf that persistently attempted—and in Summer 2023 often succeeded—to get on the large ranch we had fenced off so she could eat calf poop. Of course, we fenced the ranch specifically to keep wolves off of it so her behavior was very frustrating…more on that below. We hiked out to O4D's last location and found her body beneath a large spruce tree. She was thin and emaciated. We weighed her and she was 37 lbs. We couldn’t see any visible injuries. However, in late June, we suspected, based on substantial changes in O4D’s movements, that she had been hit by a car after crossing Highway 53, the main highway going through our area. In fact, two days after we suspected she had been hit, we thought she was dead near the highway because she had not moved. We hiked out to check but she wasn’t there. She had moved a few hundred meters away and bedded down. Slowly, she started moving in what seemed like a more typical pattern for wolves in the summer. I.e., traveling long distances and then bedding. We suspected maybe she had been injured but was recovering. But the fact she died about 3 weeks later from apparent starvation seemed too coincidental so after we found her body, we sent it in for a necropsy (an animal autopsy). The autopsy found that she had substantial injuries to her pelvis and back legs that were consistent with a vehicle collision. Specifically, the ligament attaching her back right leg to her pelvis completely ruptured and her right femur was displaced from the socket. She also had several fractures in her pelvis as well. Interestingly, the necropsy also found O4D had extensive trematode/fluke burden (i.e., parasites) in her bile ducts and liver which could have contributed to physical deterioration. In the end, she tried to keep going after being hit by a vehicle but she was likely never going to recover from such injuries. And the injuries clearly inhibited her ability to get food, and so she starved. Now we know some will be upset and claim we should have captured her and sent her to rehab. However, we had no idea of what condition she was in or the extent of her injuries, and couldn’t have gotten close enough to observe her if we wanted to. And capturing a specific wolf that was still moving substantially by human standards and who definitely would not have wanted to be captured would have been exceedingly difficult even if we wanted to do that. Anyway, Wolf O4D was a unique wolf that taught us critical lessons about what is needed to prevent wolf-livestock conflict. She, through her frustrating desire to get on this ranch, showed us where all of our weaknesses were and how we had to fortify the fence to prevent wolves from getting on. In fact, we think without her wearing a GPS-collar, the fence project probably would have been a failure because without that we would have known a wolf or wolves were getting on the ranch but would have had no idea where, or how to stop them. That would have led to increasing frustration and the depressing feeling that the fence just wasn’t working. But thank goodness of all the wolves to have collared we had the one wolf that was fixated with getting on that ranch. With a 7.5 mile fence line on the ranch, it is very hard to isolate the 1-2 foot section where a wolf is sliding under the fence. Having a GPS-collared wolf makes this much much easier. In Summer 2023, the first summer after we the fence was fully installed, O4D tested our patience repeatedly but we eventually learned how to thwart her attempts. And we felt pretty confident that if we could stop her, we could almost certainly stop most every wolf. And so in Summer 2024, the ranch had its first year in about 2 decades, per the rancher's recollection, without any depredations or missing calves that were likely killed by wolves. All was quiet and peaceful. Not sure that would have happened without the knowledge we gleaned from having Wolf O4D collared these past 2 years.$

$VoyaWolfProject's tweet photo. In late July, we received a mortality signal from Wolf O4D’s collar. O4D was the breeding female of the Windsong Pack, and the wolf that persistently attempted—and in Summer 2023 often succeeded—to get on the large ranch we had fenced off so she could eat calf poop. Of course, we fenced the ranch specifically to keep wolves off of it so her behavior was very frustrating…more on that below. We hiked out to O4D's last location and found her body beneath a large spruce tree. She was thin and emaciated. We weighed her and she was 37 lbs. We couldn’t see any visible injuries. However, in late June, we suspected, based on substantial changes in O4D’s movements, that she had been hit by a car after crossing Highway 53, the main highway going through our area. In fact, two days after we suspected she had been hit, we thought she was dead near the highway because she had not moved. We hiked out to check but she wasn’t there. She had moved a few hundred meters away and bedded down. Slowly, she started moving in what seemed like a more typical pattern for wolves in the summer. I.e., traveling long distances and then bedding. We suspected maybe she had been injured but was recovering. But the fact she died about 3 weeks later from apparent starvation seemed too coincidental so after we found her body, we sent it in for a necropsy (an animal autopsy). The autopsy found that she had substantial injuries to her pelvis and back legs that were consistent with a vehicle collision. Specifically, the ligament attaching her back right leg to her pelvis completely ruptured and her right femur was displaced from the socket. She also had several fractures in her pelvis as well. Interestingly, the necropsy also found O4D had extensive trematode/fluke burden (i.e., parasites) in her bile ducts and liver which could have contributed to physical deterioration. In the end, she tried to keep going after being hit by a vehicle but she was likely never going to recover from such injuries. And the injuries clearly inhibited her ability to get food, and so she starved. Now we know some will be upset and claim we should have captured her and sent her to rehab. However, we had no idea of what condition she was in or the extent of her injuries, and couldn’t have gotten close enough to observe her if we wanted to. And capturing a specific wolf that was still moving substantially by human standards and who definitely would not have wanted to be captured would have been exceedingly difficult even if we wanted to do that. Anyway, Wolf O4D was a unique wolf that taught us critical lessons about what is needed to prevent wolf-livestock conflict. She, through her frustrating desire to get on this ranch, showed us where all of our weaknesses were and how we had to fortify the fence to prevent wolves from getting on. In fact, we think without her wearing a GPS-collar, the fence project probably would have been a failure because without that we would have known a wolf or wolves were getting on the ranch but would have had no idea where, or how to stop them. That would have led to increasing frustration and the depressing feeling that the fence just wasn’t working. But thank goodness of all the wolves to have collared we had the one wolf that was fixated with getting on that ranch. With a 7.5 mile fence line on the ranch, it is very hard to isolate the 1-2 foot section where a wolf is sliding under the fence. Having a GPS-collared wolf makes this much much easier. In Summer 2023, the first summer after we the fence was fully installed, O4D tested our patience repeatedly but we eventually learned how to thwart her attempts. And we felt pretty confident that if we could stop her, we could almost certainly stop most every wolf. And so in Summer 2024, the ranch had its first year in about 2 decades, per the rancher's recollection, without any depredations or missing calves that were likely killed by wolves. All was quiet and peaceful. Not sure that would have happened without the knowledge we gleaned from having Wolf O4D collared these past 2 years.$

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Mammal Research @MammRes

over 1 year ago

Above all, Edinburgh is a beautiful place

Adam Hayward @adhayward18

over 1 year ago

Do you or your promising undergrad/MSc student fancy a PhD involves fun fieldwork, evolutionary theory and one of the best evo eco data sets out there? Then look no further than this one looking at the role of maternal effects in evolution in @SoaySheep! https://t.co/5apCyKAa1c

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Watch Ethiopian wolves drink flower nectar, a first for a large carnivore | Science | AAAS https://t.co/H759qN8z8W

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Unified analysis of niche overlap between coyotes (Canis latrans) and gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) Study by César R. Rodríguez-Luna, David Valenzuela-Galván, Jorge Servín & Rurik List Read for free: https://t.co/SxmmXbBCUa

MammRes's tweet photo. Unified analysis of niche overlap between coyotes (Canis latrans) and gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Study by César R. Rodríguez-Luna, David Valenzuela-Galván, Jorge Servín & Rurik List
Read for free: https://t.co/SxmmXbBCUa https://t.co/UfCD0QeG5X

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over 1 year ago

😍👏🥳

Alessandro Forti @AleForti90

over 1 year ago

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Take a look at our #OpenAccess #OriginalArticle published in @MammRes. We have investigated the spatial behaviour of Alpine marmot. Click here for the paper: https://t.co/qR9NRNBkCs #phdlife @ParcoPaneveggio @DSVunito

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New genetic data unveil taxonomic complexity in the high-Andean sigmodontine Abrothrix andina (Rodentia, Cricetidae) Study by Mauro N. Tammone, Erika Cuellar Soto, Damián Voglino & Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas @CONICETDialoga

MammRes's tweet photo. New genetic data unveil taxonomic complexity in the high-Andean sigmodontine Abrothrix andina (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
Study by Mauro N. Tammone, Erika Cuellar Soto, Damián Voglino & Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas @CONICETDialoga https://t.co/2sAREPotKe

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over 1 year ago

Can it more bizarre? It must STOP!

Fiona Mathews @MathewsFiona

over 1 year ago

Trade in bats must stop! Our new paper, led by @BronwenHunter highlights scale of online trade. Most buyers from Europe and N America; most bats from Global South. Some platforms are tightening rules, but still easy to find @AmazonUK. @_BCT_ @BatConIntl https://t.co/dZAQGws3Hw

MathewsFiona's tweet photo. Trade in bats must stop! Our new paper, led by @BronwenHunter highlights scale of online trade. Most buyers from Europe and N America; most bats from Global South. Some platforms are tightening rules, but still easy to find @AmazonUK. @_BCT_ @BatConIntl https://t.co/dZAQGws3Hw https://t.co/LhL371UNwj

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Researchers tested various bait and lure combinations to improve detection rates using camera traps across 42 sites

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#OA #OpenAccess Study by Kate Ebel & Patrick J. C. White highlights the decline of weasel species globally https://t.co/Zl4HTpMhRQ @EdinburghNapier

MammRes's tweet photo. #OA #OpenAccess Study by Kate Ebel & Patrick J. C. White highlights the decline of weasel species globally
https://t.co/Zl4HTpMhRQ
@EdinburghNapier https://t.co/ZjzqtasBY8

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