Patricia C. Wright
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Patricia C. Wright
@patcwright
Primatologist and Conservationist based at Stony Brook University, NY and @CentreValBio, Madagascar
Stony Brook, New York Entrou em Ağustos 2009
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@DukeLemurCenter I brought Poe to the DLC so many years ago. Looks so young. They might live longer than chimps.
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We don't want to play favorites, but it's hard not to love Poe, the 36-year-old aye-aye. He's just so Poe-fect!
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We're proud to share the news that former Wenner-Gren president Leslie Aiello has won the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service! buff.ly/3bq0fCN
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The Wildlife Artist Who Paints the Beauty of Vietnam’s Endangered Nature | Saigoneer saigoneer.com/saigon-music-a…
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@amyedunham Hope all the turtles survive. Amazing numbers of turtles. Fingers crossed for them.
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Fossil treasures found in flooded caves in southwestern Madagascar! 🌊
A team of #NSFfunded researchers is looking at fossils found underwater, in the cave floor, & buried in sediments where they have rested in obscurity for thousands of yrs. #NationalFossilDay
📽️wait for it💀
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Fantastic find. Fantastic anthropologist! I was stunned when I visited this site near Tulear.
U.S. National Science Foundation@NSF
This is Laurie Godfrey. Godfrey and team have discovered a great series of fossil elephant birds (largest bird that ever lived!) and hippopotamuses as well as some lemurs. #NationalFossilDay
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“In a flooded cave the preservation can be just marvelous. Nothing’s bothering them, nothing’s disturbing them.” -- Godfrey #NationalFossilDay
Here is a Pachylemur ⬇️
📷: Barry Coleman.
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Amazing caves in western Madagascar that I visited a couple years ago. Fantastic Find. Congratulations to all.
U.S. National Science Foundation@NSF
Godfrey's colleague, biological anthropologist Zachary Klukkert, describes the unique challenges of recovering fossils from an underwater cave. ⬇️ #NationalFossilDay
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Studying large-scale extinction events in the past can help us understand declines in global biodiversity in our modern world. #NationalFossilDay
📷: Laurie Godfrey
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Onja is amazing!
The Black in Biological Anthropology Collective@BlackinBioAnth
Since today is #WorldLemurDay we had to highlight the amazing Dr. Onja Razafindratsima (@onjarazafi) . Dr. Onja is a Malagasy Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. #blackinBioAnth #blackinSTEM #AfricansinSTEM
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Potentially very useful for #primatology
Aida Greenbury@AidaGreenbury
A satellite dataset on the world's tropical forests is now available for all to see and use. It's a high-resolution image map covering 64 countries that will be updated monthly. #deforestation #transparency bbc.com/news/science-e…
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Fantastic news for all the brilliant African researchers in my feed : a new 150k research fund is launched. Conservation and Ecology both included.
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@lemurlab @muchmagda Yes, bamboo lemurs are the best lemurs, Congratulatons on the research for Anatomical Record!!
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The bamboo lemurs are the best lemurs. Check out new work led by @muchmagda and Holden Hemingway! Honored to get to be a part of it! The Anatomical Record -onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
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@MarkScherz @amyedunham Beautiful frogs. Can we have a copy of this slide or can we make posters for sale? Please contact me.
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Hi yes hello here are 106 species of frogs from Madagascar that I've photographed in the last six years. I made this slide for my PhD defence to try to illustrate just how incredible the diversity of Madagascar's frogs really is.
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