Rob Davis
@robdavis1104.bsky.social
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Postdoc - Wildlife Ecology Lab, NMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera trapping 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦡🦔 • Chelsea FC ⚽🔵 https://robdavisresearch.weebly.com/
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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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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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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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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 Mostela box deployed in the field A Cape grey mongoose inside a Mostela box
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ambercowans.bsky.social
📝 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...
doi.org
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Prof Fat Bear! That's awesome! Congratulations man! 🥳
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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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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
A caracal moving under the bushes
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Well done to Damaris, it was a great defence and excellent research! 🤩🦏
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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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lisannepetracca.bsky.social
🐆🐆 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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chrissuthy.bsky.social
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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fattebertj.bsky.social
There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!
fatbear-bio.bsky.social
📢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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scrappynaturalist.bsky.social
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! 🧪🌎
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"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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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
www.mammalsociety.org
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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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olliewearn.bsky.social
Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)
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marcellodamico.bsky.social
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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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-bio.bsky.social
📢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