#tawiri15 is the only conference I've been to where speakers occasionally had to speak over loud music from the party trucks out on the road
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Fredrick: We are a long way from being able to use drones to do aerial surveys. Trained human eye much better at moment.
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Slightly disappointed that I won't get to tick "comic sans font" box in #conferencebingo
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Fredrick: Whether or not there are scavengers, weather, habitat will affect carcass decay rates
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Fredrick: Current carcass decay rates for elephants based on paper from 1960's. New decay rates needed.
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Fredrick: With increasing pressures on animal populations, 4 year intervals btwn surveys not enough
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Fredrick: angle of observer's neck in airplane affects how much area they survey, which throws off calibration.
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Fredrick shows a pic of buffalo herd, challenges us to estimate # w/in 5 secs like observers get.
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Fredrick:naive observers tend to under estimate the number of animals in a herd, like buffalo
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Fredrick: Don't often see carnivores from the air
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Fredrick: Much harder to spot a elephant carcass form the air than a live moving one
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Fredrick: Because of difficulty of surveying in wet season, are starting to lose the picture of what happens in wet season
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Fredrick: with aerial surveys, animals much easier to see when moving or in dry season when no canopy cover
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Howard Fredrick shows a picture of elephants in areas with canopy cover, I can't see a single of the 15 eles
#surveyprobs
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Turns out that syphilitic baboons get less sex and grooming than other baboons.
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There are some gnarly pictures of diseased baboon genitals in two of the posters. Even I glanced away.
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In villages that have dog vaccination, hyenas kill more dogs, in villages w/out vaccination, sickness kills more @AniaCzupryna
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Hyenas and sickness main causes of death for domestic dogs around Serengeti @AniaCzupryna
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engaging talk by @AniaCzupryna about what controls domestic dogs around Serengeti- predation, disease, resources
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Dobson: Fire is like a virus because it needs certain # of hosts (fuel), and if you kill hosts, virus dies out.
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Andy Dobson compares fire not to a herbivore, but to a virus (without mutation)
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Not quite the Dothraki 'It is known' but I was amused by a "This is very known" in a talk.
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Jones estimates that in the Selous, it will take 40 years of no poaching for the elephants to recover the #s lost in past 5 years
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Jones: Ruaha will need decades of security to recover population size and natural pop structure of elephants
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Jones: 7% of female elephants in Ruaha are tuskless, usually about 1% in unpoached populations
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Jones: Seeing decline of infant elephants as well as old bulls and females over 25 years. Also increase in tusklessness.
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Trevor Jones of @STzElephants gave a talk on demographic change of elephants in Ruaha
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Interesting talk by David Olsen about using drones to herd elephants away from crops. Includes pics of drones fixed w duct tape.
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#conferencebingo bonus - 3 part long winded comment from same distinguished gentleman as yesterday. Includes points about methods
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Props to @jgchopcraft for giving someone else's talk with only a few hours of warning. And for forgoing the mic.
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