Tim Huijsmans

How to quantify maternal investment? @HuijsmansTim reports the maternal investment metric for mammalian species - derived from the allometric scaling of litter mass at weaning age by adult mass and investment duration nature.com/articles/s4200…

Nature's ComBio published my article on quantification of maternal investment, i.e. energy a mother invests in her offspring. It introduces a metric to compare investment across species to increase our understanding of evolutionary reproduction strategies: rdcu.be/dE6h4

Yesterday I spoke at the caring congres for veterinarians, doctors, and farmers about the importance of Dutch #wildlife for society. @Caring_Vets @caringfarmers @CaringDoctors

@GargoylePhan Thanks!

@HuijsmansTim Congratulations!

Yesterday I had my graduation ceremony at the University of Ghent. I am deeply honored to have been bestowed with an award for the best master’s thesis by the faculty research commission.

@MegzoneMeg Thank you!

@HuijsmansTim Wow well done, that’s quite an accomplishment 👏🏼

@thismightbeAL Thank you!!

@KrisKross2Paris Thanks!!

@HuijsmansTim Je moet het maar durven, en doen (foto's). Gefeliciteerd, veterinarian.

Today my official registration as a #veterinarian was finalised! 🥳🩺🐘🐢👨‍🎓

Good news! After 5 years of campaigning to ban animal markets in Flanders, Minister of #AnimalWelfare @BenWeyts announced that the markets will be banned!

Our economical system needs to start to take costs of #climatechange and #biodiversity loss into account. It will require urgent changes, to make our society future proof. #EconomicGrowth #ClimateAction

@elonmusk still see a lot of Twitter branding. Thought that it would be X by now #TwitterX

@MondeeRedman Thankss

@HuijsmansTim Congratulations! 🎊🎉

@kirkmurphy Thankss

@HuijsmansTim Congratulations!

@Lenny0602 Thanks!!

@HuijsmansTim Congratulations and good luck

@cb_doge The increase in population has stopped already some time ago. Right now the increase of people is just the result of the new generations that are bigger and are replacing a smaller old population.

China: Birth rate hits all-time low: 6.77 births per 1,000 people. Singapore: Birth rate has reached a record low in 2022 with only 35,605 babies born throughout the year. U.S: Population Flatlining As Birth Rate Stagnates. Italy: Birth rate drops to historic low. Japan: Birth rate declines for 7th consecutive yr in 2022 to record low. South Korea: Birth rate remains alarmingly low.

Can you guess the species of this #turtle? #TurtlesofTwitter #AnimalFacts

@antoinebos1 Unbelievable

@HuijsmansTim nos.nl/artikel/248364…

#Lioness with an unknown history on the loose in #Berlin. She was hunting on a wild boar. Did she maybe survive for some time on her own? It raises many interesting questions concerning #animalwelfare, instinct, European wildlife, etc.

@antoinebos1 Yes I read it

@antoinebos1 Yes, it is clearly a lioness give the physical characteristics

@HuijsmansTim Sure if it is a lioness? Even feline? A big dog? Footage conveniently cut before the whole head is revealed. Why is that?