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Christopher Dutton

@cldutton.bsky.social
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Asst Professor in Biology at the University of Florida. Yale EEB PhD. Ecology and Conservation. Ecosystems, animals, microbes, etc... ufduttonlab.github.io

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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Replacing the bulkhead on one of our trusted field vehicles, a 1988 Land Rover Defender, 300TDI. 🧐👌
bulkhead replacement for our old defender.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Everglades. Squint and you can see our...🤖🐰🏹🐍
An everglades canal, with our robotic bunnies set up on the side in the distance to lure in invasive pythons.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
August 2004: International Police oversight in Iraq. August 2026: 22 yrs later at 50 years old, running a microbiome lab at a UF. Nothing in the first photo predicted the second. Don't be afraid to follow your interests as they may evolve... and as you grow.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Dinner and movie night at camp with our friends. Hilarious watching #TheSheepDetectives with our local friends who actually have sheep.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sorry girls, now is not a good time to swing...let's go sit by the fire.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bird eating snake
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Summer camp for our daughters at our research camp in Kenya... washing clothes by hand is a big part of the experience. 💪
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wondering... if the dwarf mongooses are trying to tell me that there is a 🐍 outside the tent?
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A little excitement this afternoon when a hippo came out of nowhere, between myself and my kids, as I was fixing our remote telemetry system.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Baboons can read maps!
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Beautiful sunset tonight.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Everything is going great. 👍
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Couldn't clear the overhang without a little extra weight! 💪😂
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sometimes...it just takes a little longer to get where you are going ...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is why we hire Maasai to help. They can spot the hippo moving in the bush much further than we can see.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
First breakdown of the trip!
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Summer camp for the kids... helping collect gas flux measurements in the bush of Kenya. 🙏👍
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Turns out...our Kenyan nanny is an excellent hair dresser as well.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Researcher walking in the foreground, with many giraffe and zebra in the background.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Made in the USA, Made Stronger in Kenya. 💪
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Well, that didn't take long, to break the soil corer. 💪
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
One got me!
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Siafu ants always move when it rains...gotta be careful walking around camp...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh yeah. Heavy rains. Here we are. An African clawed frog just arrived at camp, and we're 1km from the river....
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Zebra crossing upstream, one was taken...and these big boys started moving upstream.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The rain is coming...and the wildebeest will follow....
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ah...hello old friend..I've missed you...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Within five minutes of the giraffe pooping, the dung beetles were already working thru it...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Always great to be back in the Mara
Elephants in a field
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now.
weather station that got burnt during  a controlled burn.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients, they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.
wildebeest in the savanna
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
More wildlife = more multichannel feeding across detrital and algal pathways. At high input sites, river flow barely affected consumer diets...hippo subsidies may buffer the food web against hydrological variation.
hippos in a hippo pool
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵
elephants crossing a river
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Super fun to give the keynote at the American Zoological Association Nutrition Meeting in Oklahoma City! Talked about my lab's work in Kenya, Congo, and with Zoos across the US. A truly great group of passionate, kind people.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Pretty tickled to see our little guy on the big screen during the keynote address of the UF School of Natural Resources and Environment Research Symposium.
Picture of our robotic bunny used as a python lure in the Everglades.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Whoa! Been waiting yrs for these...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
An undergrad in my lab just made this @nanoporetech.com library of several metagenomes. All future libraries will now be judged based on this one. 🎉💯
image of the pore occupancy on a nanopore minion, super excellent library prep and loading....a sea of green.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I've never seen Amanda more excited than when she just received @bengoldfarb.bsky.social 's book in the mail along with a chewed up beaver stick! 🎉🥳
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Success!! Finally got the acacia thorn out of my shoe from the summer field season in Kenya/Tanzania. Every other day...I'd step on a rock and feel it. Tomorrow...is a new day. 🙏🤞
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Whoa... elephants in camp...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Going in for a closer look...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Intense focus on that warthog...
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This time...our commute from the river was stopped by a group of female lions and two cubs, hunting a warthog. 🤷 We had to stop out of respect for their hunt.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hard to get my grant application narrative done when there are three warthogs cuddling 3 meters from our table.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You always see a lion in the Mara...even when you're just trying to get to the river to do some research. 🤷
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What!? First time seeing a southern ground hornbill in camp.
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