Raccoon Biologist 🇨🇦🦝🇺🇸

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change

We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇

📸G. Casbas

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Behavioural flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys Phylogenetic comparisons suggest that behavioural flexibility facilitates success in urban environments. It remains less clear whether urbanization fosters cognitive skills that require flexibility, o...

🚨 In our new Preprint we studied how anthropogenic foraging experience relate to behavioral flexibility and innovativness in urban vervet monkeys 🐒
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Unique outdoor camera system offers a window into the secret lives of wild birds Capturing the behavior of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? Researchers from the Konstanz-based Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behavior" developed a unique outdoor camera system to...

2025. Unique outdoor camera system offers a window into the secret lives of wild birds phys.org/news/2025-06...

Remember all those Stanley Park coyote attacks? Blame the pandemic, says researcher UBC research reveals a correlation between pandemic restrictions and unprecedented coyote attacks in Stanley Park in 2020-21. Read more.

#UBCForestry Associate Professor Sarah Benson-Amram shares that by monitoring and understanding coyote behaviour, “we want to improve outcomes for people, their pets and for coyotes,”👥

🔗 Read via @vancouversun.bsky.social: vancouversun.com/news/stanley...

Ranger Rick definitely inspired my love and appreciation for raccoons as a kid! And other wildlife too I guess.

Remember all those Stanley Park coyote attacks? Blame the pandemic, says researcher UBC research reveals a correlation between pandemic restrictions and unprecedented coyote attacks in Stanley Park in 2020-21. Read more.

“The goal ultimately is to coexist,” said Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram, head of UBC’s urban wildlife project. @zoology.ubc.ca @forestry.ubc.ca

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Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner

Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner

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A dear old friend sent me this the other day ✨🦝✨

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A coyote stands on a road. Thousands of coyotes are killed annually in the United States in the interest of population control, sparking fierce disagreements about the ethics and effectiveness of the approach. Image credit: Shutterstock/Wirestock Creators.

Is killing animals an effective way to regulate populations? Researchers debate the efficacy and #ethics of #LethalControl. A PNAS News Feature: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#conservation #SpottedOwl #BarredOwl #coyotes #InvasiveSpecies #culling #EndangeredSpecies #USFWS #EPA #wildlife

A black and white trail camera image of a raccoon eating from a bag of Fritos

Sometimes you just need some junk food to get through the night. #raccoon #fritos #trashpanda