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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭

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Carnivores-Ungulates-Large landscapes Movement-Habitat-Connectivity Research Professor-Vilnius University Research Associate-Nelson Mandela University (George) Founder @fatbear-bio.bsky.social fattebert.weebly.com

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Christos Mammides @cmammides.bsky.social · 15h
Higher wild boar abundance = more crop damage. But is more culling the answer? In Xishuangbanna, China, higher wild boar abundance was also linked to higher vertebrate richness, positive associations, and stable co-occurrence networks. Conflict-driven culling may have unintended ecological costs.
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 5h
"Looking beyond hunted species to their habitats, hunting predominantly increased the extent of land conserved. We now need to understand the ecological integrity of these landscapes."
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Benedetta Catitti @bcatitti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
en.as.com/latest_news/... #Conservation
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Oklahoma reintroduced bison to tallgrass prairie in 1993: Decades later, the herd has restored the native grassland ecosystem
A third of the United States was once covered with prairies, today just a fraction remains but with the help of bison the vibrant ecosystem is returning.
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 21/09/2026
15 years after the last range-wide assessment of jaguar connectivity, landscapes are much changed A new study has found an extensive, highly connected core area, but also identified major connectivity gaps and threatened corridors 👇 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.71093 📷 Emiliano Ramalho
A jaguar rests on a tree branch in a jungle
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maternal status of female leopards drives spatio-temporal interactions between the sexes  academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Maternal status of female leopards drives spatio-temporal interactions between the sexes
Using camera trap data, we found that the spatial behavior of female leopards is strongly influenced by the presence of offspring. Females with cubs consis
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original study the article is based on in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America
Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist
The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pathways to recover Asian wild pigs from African swine fever www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Pathways to recover Asian wild pigs from African swine fever - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
African swine fever virus has spread rapidly across Asia, causing lethal disease in several endemic wild pig species and Eurasian wild boar in Southeast Asia, and threatening some species with extinct...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 Published📖 A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection 🧪 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/1CLbCww
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her
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FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New website up and running!🥳 Français fatbear.bio English fatbear.bio/en/
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Homepage - Fatbear
FatBear accompagne chercheurs, universités, ONG et organismes de conservation dans l’analyse des mouvements animaux, l’étude des habitats et la prise de décision fondée sur les données.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A plan to send #rhinos to #Australia has been scrapped and the money raised for it redirected to African projects www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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R10m windfall for African conservation after Australian ‘rhino rescue’ plan folds up
The Australian Rhino Project was set up at the height of the South African rhino poaching crisis 13 years ago. The aim was to move hundreds of rhinos to Australia to serve as an ‘insurance policy’ aga...
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📖 Identification of camera trap images by artificial intelligence and human experts produces similar multi-species occupancy models 📸 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
South Africa's Constitutional Court ends Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas lifeline in victory for coastal communities www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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ConCourt ends Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas lifeline in victory for coastal communities
Apex ruling overturns order that gave companies another chance to preserve an “unlawfully” granted offshore exploration right.…
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Most shark and ray species have <1% of their range covered by no-take MPAs. New open access in @consletters.bsky.social: Sharks, Rays, & MPAs: a global assessment of MPA coverage in national waters across species ranges tinyurl.com/SharkRayMPA @nickdulvy.bsky.social @jaymatsushiba.bsky.social
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Predicting disease spread from host movement data: Chronic wasting disease in North America as a case study🦌 🌳 🦠 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/A7zIr3L
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Duh.
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Subsidiary Q: Do some preprints out there eventually never get accepted and published in a PR journal? I would think so, and if so, what's the point beyond cluttering science?
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Honest Q Has any1 evr got a preprint eventually published as is? I mean,as flawed as peer-review might be,I'm expecting substantial changes btwn the submitted v of a MS & its final published v,if not (desk)rejected 2 start with Askin 4 a frnd who nvr got the concept of preprints that stay up 4ever
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Chris Farley: No Idea!
ALT: Chris Farley: No Idea!
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 03/08/2026
Q&A: Does the world need 'carbon-capture and storage' to reach net-zero? Described by IPCC as "critical", it has repeatedly fallen short Today, it captures just 0.2% of global CO2 from fossil fuels Great piece by my @carbonbrief.org colleague @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We made the cover! First pub ever for @kalpapran.bsky.social from his MSc! Very enjoyable cosupervision with @antoniouzal.bsky.social Congrats to the team!🥳💪🍾
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/08/2026
“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Why Is Europe Burning?
“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.”
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/07/2026
New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...
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Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🆕 in "Ecology": what marking nearly 1,700 bees reveals about their movement across the landscape
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🦏🤝Familiarity and aggression shape long-term associations and mortality risk in a solitary ungulate 📷Jenny Hishin vist.ly/5czgc #BlackRhinoceros #DicerosBicornis #Fitness #Groups #Offspring #Social #SolitaryLiving
Group of rhinos standing together in a natural setting.
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NTU News @ntunews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new NTU-led study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions. Just published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Raft of targeted conservation efforts may help boost leopard numbers in sub-Saharan Africa, study suggests
There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions.
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Very interesting research! 💭 You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa
By integrating density modelling with habitat suitability, we provide a decision-support framework for leopard conservation across sub-Saharan Africa. The results identify where conservation investme...
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Kalpapran Patowary @kalpapran.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Really excited that this paper’s out! Hoping it will have on-the-ground applicability and help conservation managers make evidence-based conservation decisions for leopard recovery in Africa.
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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The deadliest myth regarding the pangolin is the persistent, unscientific belief in the healing powers of its carapace. Despite the keratin scales having the same remedial properties as human nails, traditional Chinese homeopathic medicine underpins the robust demand for illegal pangolin body parts.
Taipei Zoo is the world's leading pangolin rehabilitation and breeding expert

https://wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/taiwan-nature-mythical-pangolins-vintage-art-and-modern-icons-06596ed9ba00
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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 21/07/2026
Ah cool! I've done the same before for base R vs tidyverse: emitanaka.org/rsyntax/data...
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Base R and Tidyverse syntax comparison for data wrangling – R Syntax
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse
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data.table vs. base vs. dplyr | Vincent Arel-Bundock
Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 21/07/2026
A recent study analyzed three years of videos from camera traps on canopy bridges in Costa Rica. Researchers found that usage of the crossings increased over time with different species displaying a stronger preference for certain designs. Read more: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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How effective are canopy bridges really?
New research from Costa Rica shows canopy bridges become more effective over time and animals prefer rope bridges over ladder bridges.
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
One of those little academic victories 😁
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 10/07/2026
Tajikistan’s markhor population has rebounded from a few hundred to more than 7,000 after years of conservation work ow.ly/N6bK50Zmqto #Tajikistan #Markhor #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeRecovery
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Tajikistan Notes Conservation Success as Markhor Population Grows - The Times Of Central Asia
The population increase reflects years of conservation measures and local community efforts to protect the markhor, which is indigenous to mountain regions in
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Fridolin Zimmermann @zifridolin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check it out Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa - Patowary - 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fatbear-bio.bsky.social @fattebertj.bsky.social
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Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa
By integrating density modelling with habitat suitability, we provide a decision-support framework for leopard conservation across sub-Saharan Africa. The results identify where conservation investme...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality vist.ly/59eid
Diagram with four sections showing population density and home range with labels 'Overlap' and 'Spatial gaps'.Six scatter plots showing home range overlap against home range size with variables such as group size, territoriality, and habitat dimensionality.Two graphs; left shows lines of home range overlap vs body mass with different m(d) values, right shows habitat dimensionality effects.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Biodiversity
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Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size
A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not on...
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Jon morant @morantjon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🧵 Have you ever wondered how far an animal can actually travel? We did, and the answer will blow your mind. 1/4 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A 2100‐km jaguar journey redefines mobility and large‐scale conservation priorities during large carnivore dispersal
Click on the article title to read more.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/06/2026
President Moetai Brotherson announced an expansion of marine protections, placing 30% of French Polynesia’s waters under full protection from industrial fishing and seabed mining. The 1.4 million-sq-km (540,500 mi2) reserve shields critically endangered sharks, marine mammals, and seabirds.
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French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters
The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this move, 30% of…
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Inès Khazar @ines-khazar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🌍 Global Translocation Study – call for contributors 🐾 We’re compiling post-release movement data from translocated, reintroduced, relocated & rehabilitated vertebrates worldwide. Interested in taking part? Quick survey below 👇 tinyurl.com/global-trans... Feel free to pass it on to colleagues 😊
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 17/06/2026
New online! A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators
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A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00173-xBiodiversity indicators are essential for tracking progress towards international biodiversity goals, but existing indicators have important shortcomings and are not based on animal movement data. This Perspective outlines why incorporating movement data into biodiversity indicators can help to address these shortcomings, improve monitoring and inform effective conservation actions.
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ask a LLM😅
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"We employed an interdisciplinary approach to maximize the use of data collected opportunistically and non-academically to report a previously undocumented natural phenomenon, the Mababe Cape buffalo mega-herd, which includes a minimum of 3676 animals, making it the largest buffalo herd on record"
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Yup.
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yes, yes, the Swiss and the Swedes are playing each other in the IIHF worlds 1/4 finals tonight, and they're from 2 different countries! 😜
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Animal Conservation @animalconserv.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Intense #hunting pressure drives roost use in the Egyptian fruit bat: Conservation and #OneHealth implications zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #fruitbats #batroosts @wileyecology.bsky.social
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