Shireen Turner

Undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine majoring in Biological Sciences

Previous Tweets were written as part of Writing 39C

[Frontiers - Immunology @FrontImmunol]

New Research: Contribution of Sex Differences to HIV Immunology, Pathogenesis, and Cure Approaches: Approximately 38 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2020 and 53% of those infected were female. A variety… https://t.co/CZKYqEyiVu #immunology

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Check out the Portfolio I created as part of Writing 39C focusing on chimpanzees!! #39canimals
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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

It's heartbreaking to see innocent chimpanzee orphans separated from their mothers! They are very social animals so without a parent, they struggle with communicating and interacting socially with others as time goes on! 😢#39canimals

[Giselle Huerta @GiselleHuerta16]

When infants are separated from their mother due to being victims in the illegal wildlife trade, the infants suffer long-term affects since the infant depends on their mother for quite literally everything. #39canimals #wildlifetrade

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Chimpanzees deserve a fulfilling life! It's terrible to subject them to experimentation to begin with, but I'm glad that chimpanzee sanctuaries do exist and put in a lot of effort to care for their chimpanzees. #39canimals

[Angelica Flores Valdivia @Angelif5_]

Retired chimpanzees need to be sent off to sanctuary homes, away from any more experiments! #39canimals

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

It's so sad to see our closest relatives face extinction because of our actions! With more development in forests, this also increases the presence of hunters in chimpanzee habitats as well! #39canimals

[Giselle Huerta @GiselleHuerta16]

Due to industry development, pipelines, agriculture and development of new homes, habitats of chimpanzees and other species continue to disappear. Chimps are forced to be pushed away from their homes, making it difficult for them to find food, shelter or nest in peace #39canimals

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

The fact that slaughtering wolves continues to be legal in such areas is terrible! They are so important as a species within their ecosystems too! #39canimals

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Wow, I never knew how much of an impact trophy hunting had on the South African economy. It's unfortunate that something so damaging would be so prominent. #39canimals

[Abel Spackman @AbelSpackman]

#39canimals “trophy hunting annually contributes more than US$341 million to the South African economy” and arguably even more importantly, creates more than “17,000 job opportunities” (Saayman et al 1).

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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

I definitely agree. No animal deserves to be treated in such a way! Animal suffering overrides any attempts to justify our treatment of them! #39canimals

[Noah Zamora @NoahZamora13]

"Like dogs on chains, caged birds crave freedom and companionship, not the cruel reality of forced solitary confinement for the rest of their very long lives." (PETA)

This excerpt should provide insight onto the obvious solution, which is to FREE THEIR WINGS!!! #39canimals

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

The fact that legal ivory exists is astonishing to me, especially since if ivory has even the smallest chance of being sold to others, this creates an incentive to keep hunting elephants for their tusks. #39canimals

[Shraddha Hardikar @shayhardik]

Distinguishing legal and illegal ivory is nearly impossible. No elephants are safe while a legal market exists.
#39canimals
Read more here :
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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

This is incredibly sad to see. These elephants don't deserve such treatment. #39canimals

[Emiliano Jr. Alanis @EmilianoJrA75]

When elephants remain chained up for hours a day with little to no movement, they "develop abnormal behavior like rocking and swaying back and forth (“Animal Circuses, Animal Suffering.”). #39canimals
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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

This just goes to show the concept of speciesism and the idea that human behavior is justified simply due to our superiority as an intelligent species, while the same behavior displayed in other species is viewed negatively. #39canimals

[Zulaikha Sael @zsael3]

Animals are called violent and aggressive, but ironically, we are the ones who are the most violent. Humans are the ones that hunt them down relentlessly/are the ones that drive them out of their habitats, giving them nowhere to go and limiting survival means
#39canimals

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Poverty's effects on wildlife trafficking have also had many negative impacts on the populations of other species as well, making it a crucial issue to fix! #39canimals

[Julia Eng @AnimalEthics39C]

Poverty is found to be related to increased wildlife trafficking. Locals living near scarlet macaws are recruited to capture scarlet macaws to give to middlemen and consolidators who sell them, earning the largest share of money (Soberanes). #39canimals
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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

In protected areas such as the Niokolo-Koba National Park, it was found that the number of animals in the park had increased by 14 to 42% in comparison to the number of animals outside the park.#39canimals https://t.co/EElofa0Xgm

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Close to 81% of chimpanzees in West Africa reside in unprotected forest fragments, increasing the vulnerability of a large number of chimpanzees. #39canimals https://t.co/OA1jfSQuap

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

The mean encounter rates of chimpanzees in mature forests...were much higher (with 2.3 signs km^-1 in mature forests and 0.3 signs km^-1 in secondary ones) than that of secondary forests (those exposed to greater human interaction). #39canimals
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[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

The isolation of chimpanzees through deforestation can also negatively impact their populations through a decrease in social interactions with one another, shown through an 88% drop in the probability of a behavior’s occurrence. #39canimals https://t.co/ofxJazfCBa

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

African forests have decreased substantially between 1990 and 2010 (a span of only 20 years), showing a remarkable loss of 74,819,000 hectares of African forest coverage, demonstrating the increasing severity of this problem over time. #39canimals https://t.co/wnMgoKDKYo

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

I was able to learn the benefits of using social media to advocate for animal-related issues because it allows for the rapid spread of information to a wide range of people globally. #WhatIlearnedin39C

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

Writing 39C helped me learn the components that make up an argument, which are a claim, qualifier, grounds, warrant, backing, and rebuttal. #WhatIlearnedin39C

[Shireen Turner @ShireenTurner]

As part of my research for the Literature Review, I was able to learn about chimpanzee social intelligence and their abilities to establish cultural norms within their groups. #WhatIlearnedin39C