Another travel day, but before leaving Colorado here are few pics from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo... It was baby season! Mountain goat kids were born May 19th 😍
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Another travel day, but before leaving Colorado here are few pics from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo... It was baby season! Mountain goat kids were born May 19th 😍
Join the revolution! But it's the chill, cordial, bring-out-the-best-of-science kind of revolution, just so we're clear.
Also, there are going to be some REALLY COOL papers in this special issue, so get in now!
Around Tday a few years back I was lured by the pic of a gorgeous crimson colored cranberry curd pie - every bit as delicious as lemon curd, and not healthy at all lol (though, cranberries have antioxidants riiiigghht?)
Now if we just ADD some pecan peach crisp..... I'm on board for all of it🤤
🤣 But that looks so much more colorful in the staged, filtered pics than brown rice and black beans and soggy kale...
The best time of the year is HERE!
🐘 🐯 🐀 🐝 🦈
I've picked my champion, have you!?
libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
There is indeed some blue sky peeking through! Hope my fellow West-coasters are holding up ok, this atmospheric river is living up to it's name in our parts 💦🙃
Tooooeeee beeeaaans! 🐾
Yeah my first instinct was hare with the pattern of front feet landing and then back feet together, but defined toes had me second guessing big squirrel maybe... More please! I'll look through my archives for some to share 🙃
A tabby cat sitting in dry leaves wearing a harness and leash
A black cat wears a pink harness and red leash, exploring some neighborhood patio construction
For #SundayFunday, here are my cats on supervised outside time! Would they rather be off leash? Yes. Would they be at risk of injury from cars, mortality from wild predators, and kill native animal species that are just trying to get by? Emphatically yes. So, this is our compromise 🐈🐈⬛💞
Yeah that didn't look right at all 😞
Such a wasted opportunity for the best article title ever:
"Cats are purrfect. Because science"
But otherwise, tot agree! 😺
Thank you!
Wonderful idea, thank you for taking the initiative! I'm new to the platform, looking forward to having invites to submit 💙
For #Science #SundayFunday , a list of absurd animal group names. What's your favorite?
www.mentalfloss.com/article/5510...
(Hard to beat 'A memory of elephants', though I think 'A wake of vultures' comes close!)
Everyone should check out The Stacks! Let's fix academic publishing together 💪
Hi! I'm Bryn (she/her), and most of my professional life has revolved around surveys for terrestrial mammals (special soft spot for mesocarnivores 🧡). I'm on hiatus from academia, but have just about recovered from my PhD to be thinking about what's next! In the meantime, I work with kiddos! 👦🏻👧🏾👶🏼
HOW have I never seen these before!?!?! #@$*& WOW!
River otters being rolly-polly-playful along the banks of the St Croix River in Wisconsin (~2015)
An American marten being ridiculously photogenic in front of a bait cage in northern Maine (~2018)
Ruffed grouse strutting their stuff in northern Maine (see I'm not obsessed with mammals to the utter exclusion of other taxa!)
Porcupine nibbling an aquatic stem in the St Louis estuary, northern Wisconsin (~2015)
Hey fam! I guess it's #PortfolioDay, and since my artistic abilities leave much to be desired (though I've taken up colored pencil... TBD if I'm ever brave enough to post!) here is a recap of a few #trailcam #cameratrap favorites over the years 😃
Here's the link! It is open source, please reach out if you want to chat! HUGE thanks to my amazing co-authors, especially A. Bolinjkar and G. Archambault who are published here for the FIRST TIME! The dream team for sure 🙌
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
3/4 As we had predicted, the probability a site will be used by a female with young is positively associated with hardwood trees - these have been shown to provide food resources by previous studies in Maine. Meanwhile, the history of disturbance at a site does not seem to have a negative impact!
Abbreviated table from research paper with the transition probabilities of going from three possible states, to occupied by only adult bears
2/4 The parameterization to include transitions from any initial state to the next state being either used by adult bears only (state 1) or used by a female with young (state 2) took some long hard thinking, but hopefully it will be useful to others interested in using a similar approach!
Four panels showing a black bear sow and her two cubs visiting a baited camera site in Maine, USA
🚨 New paper out!
1/4 We collected camera data on black bears in Maine and included the demographic state - either a lone adult, or a family unit, and after four years we were able to run multi-state, multi-season models to look at the influence of forest harvest on occupancy and transitions 🐻🌲🌳
Ooooph I feel this to my core. But you're almost done, hang in there! And you know what, I was starting to wonder if the spark would ever come back... but after a year and a half I'm finally feeling refreshed and enthusiastic to get back into wildlife work! I guess I really needed a break ❤️
