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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📖 Check out this new article! These findings show that beaver-engineering significantly enhances local biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, even at sites with high land-use intensity 🦫 🌊 🐸 buff.ly/tMRGm82

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

📖 A new approach to quantify isotopic (co)variation across levels of biological organization using double-hierarchical generalized linear models 🖥️ 📈 🔎 buff.ly/a2OZZlF

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

⛈️ Riding out the storm: Behavioural responses of a large herbivore to high-Arctic winds🦬❄️ 👇️ Read more buff.ly/H2wx9rZ

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Every breath of air we take, every mouthful of food that we take, comes from the natural world. And if we damage the natural world, we damage ourselves.” - Sir David Attenborough Happy Birthday to the voice that taught generations to see, respect, and protect our planet 🌍

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The Greater flamingo at Kowloon Park

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The East Asian Porcupine aka Malayan Porcupine at Ngong Ping, Ma on Shan, HK

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 13/01/2026

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Submit your application by 30 November 2025📆

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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Debottam Bhattacharjee @debottam1991.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Join us (November 26th 4 PM Hong Kong Time) for our final project meeting (online) about the Hong Kong feral water buffalo 🐃 project. Check out www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration or scan QR code on the poster. We welcome everyone!! @amcell.bsky.social

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Face to face with the landowner. Rent is due 😂🐃 📍Shap Long, Hong Kong

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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

@ghodgson.bsky.social and I will present our PhD research on October 23rd, 4 to 5.30pm HK time Zoom is open for all and in-person attendance is available for staff and students of City University of Hong Kong. Scan the QR code or use the following link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Did you know? Grebes can compress their feathers to reduce buoyancy, helping them dive easily. 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Our latest feral cattle paper “Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate” is out today in open access @royalsociety.org Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, @ghodgson.bsky.social & @amcell.bsky.social

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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We present the first evidence of seasonal coat colour changes in cattle, with paler individuals in the wet season and darker ones in the dry season, suggesting plastic phenotypes. The main driver of seasonal coat colour appears to be thermoregulation, supporting the thermal melanism hypothesis.

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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You can find out more about HK feral cattle phenotypes in our paper royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/..., and learn more about this unique populations on our website hkcattleresearch.org And let us know your thought about our findings 😀

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Hong Kong Feral Cattle Research

Visit the post for more.

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Nature’s resilience in the shadow of progress 🌱 🪶 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Water buffalo by birth, supermodel by attitude😅🐃

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

new In Press from us - "Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semi-urban feral ungulate" [water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis]. in Animal Behaviour. very well done @debottam1991.bsky.social & rest of the team! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Back in Hong Kong after attending #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata and very glad we got to see some of the city's wildlife before our return - some lovely langurs and striped palm squirrels!

Photograph showing close-up face of a langur monkey

Striped palm squirrel in Kolkata holding food in its paws and eating it on the ground

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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This was fun, even if my knees were shaking the whole time! And if anyone at #Behaviour2025 wants to know more about the feral cattle, check out Tania Perroux's talk at 11:19 today in Hall 7 👀 Last day today!

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

🌿 Native to tropical coastlines, the Sea Mango (Cerbera manghas) thrives where few plants can tolerate salt, heat, and shifting sands. But beneath its fragrant flowers and mango-like fruit lies a potent danger: cerberin, a toxic cardiac glycoside that has caused fatal poisonings across Asia.

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Male fiddler crabs show sexual dimorphism, with one claw much larger than the other. This oversized claw helps attract mates, defend territory, and even cool the crab down by releasing body heat while it's active on hot tidal flats

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Very happy to share some news! 🎉🎉 I'll be speaking at Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress on Aug 25 - 30, 2025. "Using Behaviour and Cognition Research to Advance Animal Welfare Impact" #behaviour2025 - via #Whova tinyurl.com/2y49dfr2 & @behaviour2025.bsky.social

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Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress

The 38th International Ethological Congress: Behaviour 2025, is the biggest platform for scientists, researchers, students and anyone working in the field of animal behaviour. Hosted in Kolkata, the …

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

From the paddies of Long Valley🌱🪶

White-rumped Munias and Scaly-breasted Munias

A Black-winged Stilt standing on one leg to reduce heat loss

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Shek Sheung welcomed me with these beauties! 🦋

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Just a few favorites from Ma On Shan today

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Spotted a large Carpenter bee visiting Kandelia obovata flowers of Tai O mangroves🐝🥀

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Hong Kong feral buffalo 😀🐃 - photos by @christinagrace98.bsky.social

Female buffalo scratching against a tree

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

All of these photos tell a story: a pair of Black-collared Starlings walking together, then one flies off and returns with a thread-like material, possibly presenting it to the other, both birds call loudly together before taking flight. 📍Ma on Shan

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Peek-a-moo, I see you! 😆🐮 📍Tap mun, HK

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Tap Mun version of traffic jam: sharing the path with the real locals 🐄🐖

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 18/07/2025

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

Top left: A magellanic penguin in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Image credit: Unsplash user William Warby. Top right: The GPS-corrected dead-reckoned tracks of 27 penguins at sea, colored to distinguish between the outbound (red) and inbound (blue) phases of their foraging trips. Bottom: A ‘snapshot’ of the current conditions within the grid area, showing peak tidal strength during a single day as a function of the tidal cycle, including the outgoing (‘ebb’ – left panel) and incoming (‘flood’ – right panel) tides. Penguins are often subjected to strong cross-currents during these phases. The colony location is marked by a small black filled circle with a white outline.

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Christina Grace T @christinagrace98.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Just a tailorbird going through its morning rituals 💚 📍Pui O, Lantau

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Dr Heather Browning (Veit) @zoophilosophy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Allogrooming duration increased with bystander number, suggesting that cattle potentially advertise relationships and status to peers." I absolutey love that cattle are showing off their friendships in front of others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Third-party interventions in agonistic behaviour play a key role in the maintenance of social relationships, but very little is known about how interventions in affiliation affect the distribution of ...

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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social

Photograph of a brown feral cattle grooming the back of another cow, with a pink and grey tongue sticking out of her mouth

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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This indicates that cattle pay attention to their social surroundings, and selectively interrupt bonding behaviour. These nuanced social relationships and third-party effects are often only associated with non-human primates, and not usually with livestock such as cattle.

Photograph of a female brown feral cattle individual licking another on the neck

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