Douglas Branch

@explorerkas @alex_rogers_cs @OpenAcoustics That is so cool! Do you have any problems with blood/dirt damaging the unit? We have have had a lot of problems with this in lions in the past.

Great to see various custom sensors using @OpenAcoustics AudioMoth and MicroMoth on Apple TV+ Earthsounds tv.apple.com/us/show/earths…

Delightful plenary talk by Stotra Chakrabarti @StotraChakraba2 on lion behaviour and human-nature relationship 🦁 #Beh

🦁🚨🦁🚨🦁🚨🦁🚨 Want to research lions? Studying in Berlin? Looking for an oppurtunity t to grow as a scientist researching Animal Behaviour? Internship/B.Sc.- /M.Sc.-Thesis in lions (Panthera Leo) …oo-undwildtierforschung.softgarden.io/job/30721378/I… @IZWberlin @AnimalOpps

Hot off the press! Perverse outcomes from fencing fauna. We find that a population of havened woylies show weakened anti-predator responses after 10 years isolated from predators. Read more below🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

@dfer_phd @ElephantRumbles @grainne_mccabe 👂♥️👂♥️👂♥️👂♥️👂♥️

What happens with you combine camera traps with acoustic recorders? 🧐You get awesome wildlife photos AND soundtrack!! 🦍chestbeating in #Equatorialguinea Recorded using @ElephantRumbles’s Swift #conservation #bioacoustics #tech4wildlife #cameratrap @grainne_mccabe

⭐️OPEN PHD POSITION: Communication & collective action in spotted hyenas⭐️ Come work with us to analyze high-res GPS, audio, & IMU data from an entire hyena clan, currently being collected @MaraHyenas! Apply by 16 Dec 2022: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/54728/PhD-Posi…

📢 #PhDposition alert ❗️ Come join us to study demographic resilience of wildlife using our long-term #hyena data from #Ngorongoro + #Serengeti! Apply by 23 September: 👇 short.sg/j/22425022 Team @EcoDynIZW + @HyenaProject #modelling #longtermstudies #biodemography

malthusians: be wrong 130485234 times also malthusians: ok but this time for real

@dfer_phd It went really well, thanks!

@DouglasBranch_ How did it go?

Very excited to me presenting this research at the #PSGBsummer2022 today!!! #primates #conservation #wildlife

Starting off the day - Doug Branch is discussing his masters research covering the impact of commercial hunting! He looked specifically at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea #PSGBsummer2022

New Research: Accessibility to Protected Areas Increases Primate Hunting Intensity in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #conservation

Finally out! We used 🔫sounds to measure hunting activity & found 1) new 🛣️increased 🐒hunting 😢& a nice surprise: research presence kept hunters away! 😃 There is hope! @ConservOptimism. Thanks to @ElephantRumbles @listenforwhales @Bioko_BBPP for support! @UWE_DAS_ @UWE_Env

Why do we keep using sharks to represent the global pandemic like sharks are an infection we need to get rid of. What did the sharks do to y'all? Can no one find a better analogy? What's going on? As the unofficial, self nominated PR manager of sharks, stop slandering my client!

🇵🇸 73 yrs ago 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled/ethnically cleansed from their homes & 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed in the #Nakba. This is ongoing as Palestinians are dehumanised, dispossessed, humiliated, imprisoned, & silenced #palestine #savesheikhjarrah

Excited to share our work detailing a roadmap on how to use deep neural networks to detect the calls of the world's rarest primate, the Hainan gibbon. The same approach can be applied to other calling species. doi.org/10.1002/rse2.2… @indurbach

Back to the Basics with our New Paper Category: Natural History Field Notes

I urge authors & editors to recognise that camera trap studies in areas with human presence are social research and should be treated as such. Ideally follow guidelines from Sandbrook et al. 2021 (bit.ly/3lx422j) or @koustubh_sharma et al. 2020 (bit.ly/2Nx8GAJ)