Alan McElligott

Across South America, canopy bridges evolve as a lifeline for tree-dwelling wildlife Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusi...

#Primates 👍

2026. Spatial validation of acoustic individual identification models without ground truths: a case study with the cao-vit gibbon population. [Vietnam] peerj.com/articles/206... via @peerj.bsky.social

"​Reviewer Feedback <surveys@elsevier.com>​
Dear Elsevier,
I would be happy to provide further feedback if you can pay me for my time, using your vast profits.
Best regards,
Alan"

Precision livestock farming to improve food chain information in broilers – a scoping review Food Chain Information (FCI) is a critical component of risk-based meat safety assurance systems. However, its potential is not fully exploited, and i…

2026. Precision livestock farming to improve food chain information in broilers – a scoping review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#FastScience via #mdpi: "Received: 15 December 2025,
Revised: 23 December 2025,
Accepted: 26 December 2025" - truly remarkable 🙄

The flyer for DogX 2026 on 18th October has a party theme and photos of the speakers: Dr Zazie Todd, Dr Anne McBride, Jamie Pound, and Dr. Emmanuel Oloyede, along with the logo for the charity Bravehound. The conference takes place at the University of Winchester and is sponsored by tug-e-nuff.

Join me at DogX 2026 in Winchester, UK. I'm thrilled to be part of this amazing line-up with Dr. Anne McBride, Jamie Pound, the charity Bravehound, and Dr. Emmanuel Oloyede. Discounted tix available this weekend--already 50% sold. www.pact-dogs.com/dogx2026 #dogs #dogtraining

Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5900 years ago, and remains a…

2026. Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland
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The Old Irish Goat : a living piece of ancient heritage. New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age. The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents…

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“New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in
Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.
The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.”

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#FastScience via #mdpi: "Received: 15 December 2025,
Revised: 23 December 2025,
Accepted: 26 December 2025" - truly remarkable 🙄

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Greater mouse-deer on forest floor.

[New paper] After the 2023 African Swine Fever outbreak, greater mouse-deer density on Pulau Ubin, Singapore surged to 293/km2—the highest known for the species.

Likely drivers: >98% wild pig mortality, active reforestation and low predation pressure.

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How a fatal virus sparked Pulau Ubin’s mouse-deer boom The island is now the easiest place in the world to encounter the greater mouse-deer. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thanks Ang Qing for writing this news story on our research findings of mouse-deer population boom on Pulau Ubin after African Swine Fever all but wiped out wild pigs there.

And kudos for getting Bill Laurance & Matt Luskin to comment on the findings.

www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

Reforestation and wild pig decline spark surge in miniature deer in Singapore Rabbit-sized, nocturnal and elusive, the greater mouse-deer hadn’t been seen in Singapore for more than 80 years. Researchers long presumed it was locally extinct. In 2008, however, researchers confir...

Lovely coverage of our research findings of mouse-deer population spike after African Swine Fever wild pig mortality in Singapore by @mongabay.com's Carolyn Cowan!

news.mongabay.com/2025/12/refo...

NUS study calls for reduced boat speeds, limited entry near S’pore marine mammal hot spots The study trawled through records from 1820 to 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NUS study calls for reduced boat speeds, limited entry near S’pore marine mammal hot spots

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and dugongs have endured in Singapore’s waters despite massive land reclamation since the 1800s and its status as a shipping hub.

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Tribute to the largest poop I ever picked up on #NationalPoopDay

It happened just this weekend, and belongs to a large wild odd-toed ungulate.

Lovely creative (and conservation focused) feature of horse-y wildlife in Singapore by Letitia Chen, Ang Qing and Lim Yong of the Straits Times for the Year of the🐎.

Bonus points for the pun too.

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How do you count Singapore's wild otters? YouTube video by CNA

[Watch]: The people behind Singapore’s otter census. Also a lesson in sharing the science, stories, community engagement, and clear communication.

🎥: youtu.be/XdUnzBWD4JE

'It's detective work': Finding and counting Singapore's otters More than 20 otter watchers trawled parks and waterways over two months, photographing the animals for the third population census in Singapore.

How Singapore counts its population of world famous otters.

Featuring Otterman @sivasothi.bsky.social and the Otter Working Group.

www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ot...

Measuring chevrotain skulls at the American Museum of Natural History.

Ice cream is life!

Hello @bsky.app, I am a mammal researcher from Singapore most interested in learning about their life history and how to conserve them. Hoping to learn about that here from others, and share my own research.

Also a home ice cream maker and enthusiast, while trying to swim off all those calories.

Estimating Sunda Clouded Leopard Lifespans From Minimum Residence Times via Long‐Term Photo‐Tracking How long do Sunda clouded leopards live in the wild? Detectability challenges and transient behavior make this elusive species difficult to track. Based on compiled photographic records, we report th....

The oldest known wild Sunda clouded leopard is a 6.51-year-old female! Similar to the oldest known mainland leopard cat too.

Pretty neat what long-term camera trap studies can tell us.

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Precision livestock farming to improve food chain information in broilers – a scoping review Food Chain Information (FCI) is a critical component of risk-based meat safety assurance systems. However, its potential is not fully exploited, and i…

2026. Precision livestock farming to improve food chain information in broilers – a scoping review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"​Reviewer Feedback <surveys@elsevier.com>​
Dear Elsevier,
I would be happy to provide further feedback if you can pay me for my time, using your vast profits.
Best regards,
Alan"

2026. Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare. www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @debottam1991.bsky.social

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race

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Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals Protected natural areas across Europe are changing. Climate change, with rising temperatures and heavy rainfall, is turbocharging the growth of shrubs and trees, choking the flowers and insects that n...

2026. Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals phys.org/news/2026-03...

How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis We provide evidence in support of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in free-ranging dogs of India.

I realised yesterday, this is the 40th research paper of the #DogLab, my 50th - a good reason to feel happy!

How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis - Biswas - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Anyone who is an expert in #gutmicrobiome research is interested in collaborating with us to study #free-rangingdogs in India? Please get in touch!

Experts warn: Mass removal of stray dogs could backfire on public health | India News - The Times of India India News: A coalition of multisectoral experts from a range of global institutions has lent its weight to petitioners in the stray dog case being heard in Supre.

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Beyond WEIRD humans and STRANGE dogs: Using big team science to improve generalizability and reproducibility in comparative psychology osf.io/preprints/ps...

Treats or affection? Understanding reward preferences in Indian free-ranging dogs - Animal Cognition Animal Cognition - Free-ranging dogs (FRDs) constitute approximately 80% of the global dog population. They are freely breeding and live without direct human supervision, making them ideal for...

This year began with the acceptance of this paper, which is now online. Happy news for the #DpgLab! #dogs #dogsanhumans @animalcognition.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ombudswoman opens inquiry into Commission’s handling of Fur Free Europe ECI | The Good Lobby The Good Lobby welcomes the European Ombudsman’s decision to open an inquiry into how the EU Commission has handled the Fur Free Europe ECI.

🦊 Ombudswoman opens inquiry into Commission’s handling of Fur Free Europe ECI.

As the Commission prepares to publish its final response to #FurFreeEurope one message must remain clear: when citizens mobilise in their millions, their voices cannot be sidelined.

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