Luisa Zamora Chavez

PhD student studying sky island small mammal mycobiomes @asuSOLS | Amateur herpetologist

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

As you get older, it’s amazing how fast bird-watching creeps up on you.

[ash @ashtoberr]

we're gonna wrap mitch mcconnell in tinfoil and put him in the microwave

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.

The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.

Learn more: https://t.co/2airIuhcv0

[Bryan D. Hughes @rattlesnakeguy]

The Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake is our state reptile, though few people who live here will ever see one. Here are a couple that we encountered a while back, which we collected some locality data on and photographed under permit.

[Verity Mathis @mammalgirl]

It was a beautiful morning for the @Mammalogists Gordon L. Kirkland Run for Research here at #ASMBoulder on the gorgeous CU campus!

[Beth Pratt @bethpratt]

Exciting news! We have been getting some reports of a mountain lion sighted in Griffith Park. The @SantaMonicaMtns biologists have been alerted and are investigating.

Please give the cat space if you see him-we are trying to avoid for now people trying to photograph him -lights and sounds from cameras could impact this cat’s behavior as we don’t know if he is as comfortable in front of the cameras as P-22. And even P-22 would avoid cameras as well. If you do see him, please let us know as this will help the researchers. He is not collared.

If this cat is confirmed and becomes part of the study, the National Park Service is at the point in their numbering system that he could be named P-122!

Very exciting to contemplate another mountain lion may be calling Griffith Park home! Long live P-22!

Thank you to Vlad for the photos and videos and for caring about our mountain lions.

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Last week artist Lauren Strohacker projected images of borderlands wildlife harmed by border policies on the wall in Nogales, Ariz. The images capture the beauty and cruelty present in the borderlands.

website: https://t.co/MQWbpXOmjt
Twitter: @StrohackerArt

[Biodiversity Pathways @BiodivPathways]

Is a warming climate or habitat alteration helping white-tailed deer move north? Listen to NPR's Short Wave to find out!

https://t.co/wGLvGAAqz6

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

The Chiricahua Mountains near the U.S.-Mexico border.

[Samanta Orellana @coleopterasam]

Hi #EntoTwitter, it's been a while 😄. I'm back with more gorgeous #Anthribidae🥰. Don't miss #TaxonWorksTogether 2024 from May 7-9, where I'll be presenting about a new resource generated with @TaxonWorks and #TaxonPages. Registration is open! ➡️https://t.co/XJqtjJ9djI

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

After 20 years working in natural history #museums, I still get surprised with things like, "Oh look, there's a box of #penguins". 📦🐧🐧

[Shorty Harris @ShortyHarris99]

Now THAT'S a Chuckwalla! I saw this spectacular "redback" male Chuckwalla yesterday in Mohave County, Arizona.
#herping #reptile #herp

[Jennifer K. Frey @JenniferKFrey]

I am seeking a PhD student to investigate Habitat, Connectivity, and Climate Resilience of Conifer Forest Carnivores and Key Prey in the Southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico. With @wildlandsnetwrk
Come Join Us!
https://t.co/GOYZrrgZsh

[Science Media Centre @SMCCanada]

Threatened Caribou herds in Alberta and B.C. rebounding due to wolf culls, cow pens. New study from @ClaytonTLamb /via @globeandmail https://t.co/kl1StMM29y

[Ben Freeman @BenGFreeman1]

like birds? like mountains?

JOIN THE MOUNTAIN BIRD NETWORK

Here's how it goes:
1) do a systematic bird survey of a mountain slope
2) your wildest dreams will come true

info posted here:
https://t.co/nEZ50lKByC

(please share widely)

[Dr. Hayley Layne Crowell 🐍🦎☀️ @HylaCrowe]

I’d like to take a moment to share a CT scan of my favorite specimen in the entireUMMZ - - a 100 year old mama Massasauga rattlesnake with 12 little pups perfectly coiled inside. I love her. 🐍💜. #umicheeb #ssar2024 #ctscan

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Healthy puma in the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona.

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Please welcome Ichthyotitan severnensis, a gigantic ichthyosaur from the latest Triassic of the UK!

The key - holotype - specimen was found in 2020 by fossil-hunting father-daughter duo Justin and Ruby Reynolds (Ruby was then 11!), who are co-authors.
https://t.co/kCQ89UyE8C