

Malavika Madhavan
154 posts

@_malavika_m
PhD student @JihoceskaUni 🔍, ecology, bioacoustics 🦉🎵🎶 Individual identity signals in owls. Current focus:Little owl (Athene noctua) @malavika-m.bsky.social






Using a dataset of 800,000+ observations and decades of breeding records, Dr Satarkar and team employ multi-matrix quantitative genetic ‘animal models’ to show that genes play a minimal role in shaping individual social phenotypes in an avian system 🪽 buff.ly/423hthR



Earlier this morning I received very good news from DCF Desert National Park, Jaisalmer. He and his staff of @ForestRajasthan documented 12 #GIB in a single frame. Habitat conservation is key to revive this spp. Kudos to entire team of #DNP @orijeet @and_ecology @IUCNRedList








With @_malavika_m, @IDsignaling and others not on X, we document Little Owl densities in Hungarian villages reached a whopping 176 calling males over 6.6 sq.km!🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 This is higher than the entire Czech population 💔 & the highest of any European owl sp.!

AWARD OF @DBTIndia – RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP IN BIOTECHNOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES Applications are invited for Research Associateship from candidates holding PhD in Science/ Engineering and MD/MS in Medicine. Duration 2 years extendable Apply by 2nd Jan 2025

AWARD ISSUE OUT! Featuring 5 outstanding mini-reviews on a broad range of topics, written by early career researchers who participated in the review competition ➡️ vist.ly/3mme3s7 @VioJagger @dillenseger_g @FrankMuzio21 @G_Blackburn_ @SoraviaCamilla #HeatherWolverton







I'm excited to share our new review (and also my first, first-author paper🤯) on Vocal individuality in owls, from the perspective of Tinbergen's four questions, now out in the Journal of Ornithology @DOrnitholGes Read it here rdcu.be/dZCGu 1/🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

