Rob Davis

Postdoc @WildEcoLabNMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • PhD @NTU_ARES 🇲🇼🐆🍪 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera traps 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦔🦡 • @ChelseaFC fan ⚽

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

Stoked to see this paper out! 🤩

[Wildlife Ecology Lab @WildEcoLabNMU]

🚨 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! 📸🐾

[Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence @AER_ESE_BES]

Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores 🐾📸

New blog post out! 👇
https://t.co/mGmtV6zwXv

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

@LinkedInHelp I've sent several DMs about my account too, which was restricted just after setting it up. Could someone respond to those messages please? Thanks!

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

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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[FatBear @FatBear_bio]

📢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: https://t.co/Y8aD8JTr2n 🐾

[Arjun Gopalaswamy @ArjunGswamy]

Enjoy the footage of this cheetah going past Hotel Anokhi in Sheopur!

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

Seems like elephants aren't keen on small carnivore camera trapping! 🤣🐘😤

Mostela - 0
Elephant - 1

A good trunk selfie though! 🤣🐘

#Elephantsandfieldworkdontmix
#Elephants
#Cameratrap

[Alex Braczkowski @alexbraczkowski]

🚨New research on Uganda’s largest carnivore survey in @ELSenviron GECCO! https://t.co/tq1iPKr0dT 🦁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.

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

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!

https://t.co/XwEpquH5Bj

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

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

https://t.co/dsuicPJ6qy

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

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)

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

Wahoo proud supervisor moment! 🤩

My Honours student, Kamil, received the top mark in his class for his research project where we tested the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! 📸🇿🇦🐾

We got some fantastic results & great to see his hard work pay off! 😊

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

@GabiLeighton @imidibaniso_sc Congrats, Gabi! 🤩

[Dr Gabi Leighton @GabiLeighton]

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 👏

[Taylor&Francis News @tandfnewsroom]

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 🐈
https://t.co/undFzTtY3C

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

BBC News right now.

[Anthems for a Twenty Five Year‐Old Boy @DFakExGoalanke]

2,000 guys in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania after deciding the future of planet earth every 4 years

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

Rainy days in George! 🌧️💧🦎

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

@FattebertJ

[Oryx @OryxTheJournal]

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: https://t.co/0z1QwIwOCy

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

@FattebertJ @SANParksKrNP 🦏🦏🦏

[Rob Davis @RobDavis1104]

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