PhD fieldwork is now well underway! I’m in Cantanhez NP for 4 months to explore the use of bioacoustics to monitor critically-endangered western chimpanzees! Lots of updates to come 🌍

Study highlights crucial role of wildlife in human and ecosystem health and well-being An international team of researchers asserts that inadequate recognition of wildlife's benefits to humans can hinder global conservation efforts and policies.

Wildlife’s benefits to people’s daily lives are underrepresented in science and policy discussions, an omission that @worldwildlife.org researchers and ESPM professor @ornithoale.bsky.social say could have detrimental consequences for achieving global conservation targets. nature.berkeley.edu/...

Incredible front cover review!! A few very well deserved drinks in order for @acbowland.bsky.social & co.

How insects are helping to save the lemur in Madagascar How the farming of edible insects takes pressure off protected primates

Farming of edible insects is taking pressure off endangered lemurs in Madagascar.

With the help of the #SWMProgramme, which we’re a part of, Sakondry has gone from a tasty treat to “an innovative solution and potential game changer.”

🌍 Read more from @fao.org: www.fao.org/newsroom/sto...

Avian seed dispersal out of the forests: A view through the lens of Pleistocene landscapes Many European woody species are light-demanding and fail to regenerate in the shaded interiors of temperate forests. Most of these species are dispersed by frugivorous and seed-caching birds. The spa....

A frugivorous bird's eye-view of Pleistocene landscapes: the way #birds disperse #seeds in fragmented anthropogenic landscapes is congruent with an ecological & evolutionary history with open vegetation created & maintained by megaherbivores
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The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do? AI developers are rapidly picking the Internet clean to train large language models such as those behind ChatGPT. Here’s how they are trying to get around the problem.

AI developers are rapidly picking the Internet clean to train large language models such as those behind ChatGPT. Nature reports on how they are trying to get around the problem.

A rare publication releasing a large video dataset and computer vision code to expand great ape monitoring capabilities

Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Colleen Stephens, Samuel Angedakin, Katherine Corogenes, Dervla Dowd, Paula Dieguez, Thurston C. Hicks, Sorrel Jon...
PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition. (arXiv:2401.13554v1 [cs.CV])
http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13554

We want to share one of our latest scientific articles about cephalopods. In this article, we identified and characterized the beaks of 18 species of cephalopods found in the stomach contents of three shark species.

Read here: doi.org/10.21142/SS-...

#ExeterCEC #MarineLife, 🦑

Wouldn't it be great if shops stopped selling this stuff - such an easy fix, for something that has only very recently started to be used at halloween...