Dr Misha Rowell

PhD from @jcu 📚 Animal behaviourist studying personality, problem solving and cognition. Rat lover 🐀 Karate-ka 🥋

[Dr Misha Rowell @misharowell]

Great to work with @tash_harro on this 😁 OA article can be read here 👉 https://t.co/OFaSq3KO7L

[#AustralEcology @AustralEcology]

New in #AustralEcology! In this study investigaing the problem-solving abilities of native Australian animals in Dryandra National Park, Western Australia, we presented animals with puzzles baited with peanut butter and oat balls. @WileyEcolEvol @EcolSocAus @misharowell

[Tash Harrison @tash_harro]

Do you like solving puzzles? Woylies and koomal do too! @misharowell and I documented their problem solving attempts for the first time in Dryandra National Park. Read more: https://t.co/vGm44lRE20

[Dr. Jonathan Kolby @MyFrogCroaked]

I don't know about you, but nothing would make me happier than a toilet FULL of frogs. 🐸🐸🐸

[Australian Wildlife Conservancy @awconservancy]

Construction never stops for the #GreaterStickNestRat! When their babies are born, they latch securely onto Mum's teats to be carted everywhere, before being carried on their backs until they are weaned at one month.

🎥Mt Gibson (WA). @renee_firman/@uwanews

[Dr Meg Edwards @alittlebitmeg]

Elliott trap or bandicoot snack machine? Love these images captured from a camera trap set by a student on my recent @unisqaus wildlife field trip! #wildoz #ecology #bandicoot

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

A new study by Ph.D. candidate @SarahLJacobson1 and her advisor Prof. Joshua Plotnik (@CCCAnimals) shows that wild elephants have unique puzzle-solving skills – which could have implications for conservation https://t.co/pnjsHwkCM2 @gradcenterpsych @Hunter_College

[Prospect Park Zoo @prospectparkzoo]

Using their mouth and paws, Eurasian harvest mice weave tiny spherical nests out of grass and reeds. Sometimes they use these structures as a shelter, but when a female mouse is expecting a litter, she will build a special nest to house her young. 📸Assistant Supervisor Veronica

[Tim Henderson @tim_ecology]

I LOVE BANDICOOTS!
This week we're checking up on them one month after their re-introdution to Newhaven's feral predator-free sanctuary. #ecology #conservation

[Australian Wildlife Conservancy @awconservancy]

Get smart: Are #Bilbies developing anti-predator behaviour? 🤔

Bilbies may not be as naïve to feral cats as previously thought, according to #research undertaken at #AWC's Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary (WA)👇

https://t.co/ih1f82cszi

[Bush Heritage @BushHeritageAus]

Much more than a house mouse 🐭

This little, fragile fellow is a New Holland Mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae).

Read 'The threatened species we don't talk about' to learn about other threatened species that exist beyond the spotlight 👉https://t.co/4R0KL1OOeV

📷Bruce Thomson

[Patrick Giumelli @PatrickGiumelli]

Your friendly reminder that Australia gets to share the quoll love with our nearest neighbours. There are two endemic species found in PNG and West Papua - the Papuan or New Guinea quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus) and the bronze quoll (D. spartacus)

[Kristen loves wet bears @misskaileen]

I just realized I never posted this to Twitter and I apologize for y'all almost missing out on sleeping baby beaver content

(said beaver is getting treatment for a broken leg at a wildlife rehabber, do not try to treat wildlife on your own!)

[Dr Andrew Digby @takapodigs]

There’s a new wild population of #takahe in NZ! With Ngāi Tahu and supported by Fulton Hogan we’ve released 18 takahē to the Greenstone Valley near Queenstown - a site where they haven’t lived for over a century. Here’s the last pair heading off to their new home. #conservation

[Robin Sinclair @RobinSSci]

We were trying to survey bandicoots this week at Mt Gibson, but ended up catching more hopping mice (both Mitchell's and Spinifex) like this one. It's not quite what we hoped for, but it's hard to complain when the hoppers are this cute and are clearly doing well. 🤷
#WildOz

[Australian Wildlife Conservancy @awconservancy]

Talk about a JUMP scare! The Bilby population at Mallee Cliffs National Park (NSW) is growing in leaps and bounds - more than doubling since their reintroduction in 2019. 📈

🎥 J Holding/AWC

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

QUOLL BABIES!
Here's a fawn-coloured & a dark-coloured eastern #quoll, both with full pouches of mini-quolls just starting to get their spots, but we don't know what colours they'll be yet. #Quolls can produce a mix of colour babies (a litter of 6 can have 6 fathers). #fieldwork

[Taronga Zoo @tarongazoo]

Introducing the newest member to the Taronga family – Matilda 💚💛

Named in honour of our incredible women’s soccer team the @TheMatildas and their record breaking representation at the @fifawomensworldcup 🏆

Thank you for inspiring a nation. @ChrisMinnsMP @PennySharpemlc

[Sam Tomlin @SamTomlin539]

The tiny native chuditch - all but wiped out 100 years ago - are now breeding at a protected site in WA's Wheatbelt.@phoebe_pin @abcperth @abcnews https://t.co/zBzSFmuZA0

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?

@sydneyrats + @finngparker from @Sydney_Uni have the answer:
https://t.co/ZRTcqr0cCL