#BESMove2025 -- Movement Ecology Annual Meeting Our popular Movement Ecology Annual Meeting will move to the University of East Anglia this year, under the title Understanding Migration.

Register now for our annual meeting! Join us at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of September. This year's theme is Understanding Migration, but contributions in all areas of movement ecology are welcome.

Abstract deadline: 30th June

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Do waterholes shape territorial behaviour in African lions?

A new study found that both males and females repeatedly move along straight paths between waterholes, patrolling both core hunting areas and the edges of their territory.

Find out more👉 tinyurl.com/3a62xmuk

@biology.ox.ac.uk

Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

Congratulations to the winner of our 2024 Robert May prize!! 🏆

Read more about Maëlis’ research on the methods blog 👉methodsblog.com/2025/04/17/robert-may-pr...

WORKSHOPS Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢

George, South Africa, August 2025

🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈

Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

Still excited about this project, which has just been published - with @hollyenglish.bsky.social

Thanks again to the @besmovesig.bsky.social team !

🚨 New paper! 🚨

Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene 🐾🌍

📖 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🧠 Really enjoyed working with the great team @besmovesig.bsky.social on this one
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🚨New on the blog🚨

Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest

Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve

➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC

@wildcru.bsky.social

Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene This review provides a framework to better understand and predict animal movements and distributions in human-modified environments. Bridging the gap between movement models and management/conservati...

I'll talk about this more next week but can't resist finishing my Friday with this update

Our paper is online now in early view! Sara Gomez, Luca Börger & I led a fantastic team of researchers in this review:
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene

📣Big congratulations to Sara Gomez (a graduate of the RAINET master's programme) for her first published article.👏🥂🍾🥰🍹
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene, Journal of Animal Ecology (2025). dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

And we're live!