Sasha Montero-De La Torre, MA

#UCDavis researchers are using puzzle boxes, rain sticks & papier-mâché balls to study captive gray wolves at the Oakland Zoo & California Wolf Center. The novel research is evaluating the personality and problem-solving skills of the endangered animals. spr.ly/6016u6BD6

Open access training modules for research students now available @qubeshub 👇🏼 Share! Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R qubeshub.org/publications/4…

Welcome to the 46th meeting of @ASPvoice next year, which will take place in Riviera Maya, in México, September 8 - 11, 2024! Bienvenidos a la reunión 46 de @ASPvoice próximo año en la Riviera Maya, en México del 8 - 11 de septiembre en 2024! Por favor compartir - Please share!

@HoiLam_Jim How exciting!!! Best of luck 🐘🩵

Feels gooood to update my Twitter bio 😁 It's been an exhausting week moving to a new continent but I'm so excited to start my first postdoc and studying elephant cognition (again)! 🐘🩵

So excited to share my first first-author paper on IDing elephants in the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary! I couldn’t have done it without @CCCAnimals & @SarahLJacobson1!🐘

Are you interested in conducting behavioral research in an AZA-accredited zoo (perhaps as part of your graduate work)? If so, the Behavioral Scientific Advisory Group's new resource may be useful: #zoo #animalbehavior #research assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2332/(a…

If you are looking for a #postdoc in #AnimalBehavior at an amazing zoo (w/ opportunity for field-based work too), I cannot recommend this one more 😄 ! @okczoo #ZooResearch #Conservation governmentjobs.com/careers/okczoo…

Excitingly, I’m hiring a Research Program Coordinator to work with me here at @HopkinsMedicine on projects focusing on animal behavior, welfare, & cognition. More info & application details here: jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-… Pls RT #MonkeyMonday

@joannaxwu @mwtingley @UCLAEEB Congrats!! Huge accomplishment 🎉

I am very excited to announce that I will be starting a PhD with @mwtingley at @UCLAEEB in the fall! It is something I have wanted to do since undergrad, and I can't imagine anyone better to work with on climate change, birds, and conservation questions than Morgan. #phdchat

Workshop on Animal Welfare and Neuroscience - June 12-14 - Registration Open. Please join us for a very interesting 3 days of talks and break-out groups. Details of the programme and how to register: tinyurl.com/t9fsvcj8 #animalwelfare, #neuroscience

@MolinaroHolly Congrats!!🎉

📣 We’re seeking participants for a study examining the relationship between dog ownership, pet interactions, and stress. Time commitment: ✅ 15 minute survey ✅ 30 minute survey and Zoom call with our researchers one week later Interested? Email DogStressStudy@gmail.com 🐾

One of the things I miss most about pre-covid times is writing in coffee shops. I miss the sights and the smells and overhearing small pieces of people’s experiences and personal lives. I miss witnessing young love and old love and letting it inspire my writing. I just miss it.

meanwhile, at the smithsonian's national zoo

With many still w/o power, we wanted to share info + resources w/ our student community. For many students, this power outage may impact your academics & we encourage you to work directly w/ your professors regarding any challenges you may be experiencing due to the outage. (1/3)

(1/6) Dance display and female courtship are often overlooked in birdsong studies. We previously found that a socially monogamous songbird performs tap dance-like display in both sexes. My current study aims to understand its communicative functions. #AnimBehav2021

1/6 Body temperature (BT) is a valuable physiological parameter as it is related to animal key body functions. Infrared Technology (IRT) allows the study of thermal biology. BT serves as a proxy of health, metabolic rate, stress state and links them with behaviour. #AnimBehav2021

1 #AnimBehav2021 How do ecological and social traits shape cognition? We used a battery of tests to assess the cognitive abilities of the highly frugivorous, fission-fusion dependent spider monkey🐒, and discuss the results based on the socioecological relevance of the skills.

(1/6) Observing animal behavior has become more accessible with recent tools like the ZooMonitor app. To ensure multiple observers are consistently identifying animal behaviors, researchers rely on reliability testing as a crucial internal validation process. #AnimBehav2021

My husband is conducting interviews today. He’s the biggest goober you’ve ever met and honestly just wants to see people excited to work there. Idk what position you’re holding back applying for but just do it - you never know if you’ll have that one thing your interviewer wants.