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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to all the coauthors but particularly @richardyarnell.bsky.social and @antoniouzal.bsky.social who have led this research for many years!

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 1d

During my BSc at NTU, I participated in these surveys, collecting hedgehog capture history data in 2010 (and maybe 2009 or 2011, who knows it's that long ago! 🧓🏼). So it's pretty cool to go from collecting these data to assisting with the analyses all these years later! 😊

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 1d

Our results showed that density declined over time & was spatially structured. As badger presence changed during the study, with a new badger sett appearing halfway through the study, we observed a density-weighted shift away from this badger sett, providing evidence for the landscape of fear.

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence

Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal

Accurate density estimates are crucial for effective conservation management. However, in highly dynamic landscapes where variation in habitat composition and predator–prey interactions in both space...

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · Sep 9

TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference!

Go Yasmin!

Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social

a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "

ALT: a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Aug 20

A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!

Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

New blog post out! 👇

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

Small carnivores are ecologically important species and key indicators of environmental change. However, for many of these species, we lack robust information on their conservation status, geograph…

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Aug 19

Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#mammals

TWS Journals

We conducted a follow-up population survey of lions (Panthera leo) in a small, fenced reserve in South Africa, 2 years after the population numbers were significantly reduced by management. Our study....

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores!

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Cape grey mongoose inside a Mostela box

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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · Aug 8

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓

Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models

Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Jul 30

Prof Fat Bear! That's awesome! Congratulations man! 🥳

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Jul 15

Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger

A spotted hyaena with a snare around its neck. Photo credit: big5photos.com

Predicted snare hotspots in Kruger, with the right side image showing predicted presence/absence of snares with sites of known snare detection

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Jul 1

Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊

#caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · May 15

Well done to Damaris, it was a great defence and excellent research! 🤩🦏

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · May 3

Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆

I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️

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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · Apr 30

🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆

Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3

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London HogWatch @londonhogwatch.bsky.social · Apr 28

Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔

Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j

@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni

Developing a National Camera Trap Survey for Hedgehog Conservation

YouTube video by ZSL Science and Conservation

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 18

Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · Apr 17

There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!

FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢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: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

WORKSHOPS

Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Apr 14

Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎

Wilson Sherman @wilsonsherm.bsky.social · Apr 14

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.

doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Amy Dickman @amydickman.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Community Camera Trapping: A Novel Method for Encouraging Human–Big Cat Coexistence on Human‐Dominated Land

Human–wildlife conflict poses a major threat to conservation and livelihoods. Here, we outline two innovative approaches: one where local people monitor wildlife on their land using camera-traps and ....

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Apr 8

Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students!

A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs!

Apply by the 15th April!

👇

www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...

African Research Fellowship | American Society of Mammalogists

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Apr 1

A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷

Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab

Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)

Brian Gerber @science-action.bsky.social · Apr 1

murrayefford.github.io/SECRbook/

The SECR book

murrayefford.github.io

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Marcello D'Amico @marcellodamico.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · Mar 24

Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last September for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a massive help for them & 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 wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢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: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

WORKSHOPS

Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...

fatbearbio.weebly.com

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