Science communicator, educator, conservationist, guide @ZooPlanckendael, @ElephantHaven (secretary, education & PR). Founder @WorldofZoology & @Elephas_maximus
Joined February 2013
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15 Aug 2022
Your simple throat is the reason you don’t sound like a #chimp science.org/content/article/…
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14 Aug 2022
A team of rescuers banded together to help a giraffe with a wire wrapped around its neck
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14 Aug 2022
Excited for one of our collaborators in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 to be on Twitter. Be sure to go give them a follow!
14 Aug 2022
Welcome to Camaquiri Conservation Initiative. We are a conservation protecting many endangered species and an abundance of wildlife. Home to primates, macaws, jaguars, and so much more. See the link in our bio to find out more and how you can get involved!
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14 Aug 2022
Welcome to Camaquiri Conservation Initiative. We are a conservation protecting many endangered species and an abundance of wildlife. Home to primates, macaws, jaguars, and so much more. See the link in our bio to find out more and how you can get involved!
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13 Aug 2022
Welcome to the Kalahari Research Centre! We are located in the Kalahari Desert, in the Northern Cape in South Africa. Here we study the evolution of cooperative behavior in social mammals and birds.
#meerkats #kalaharidesert #kalaharimeerkatproject #kalahariresearchcentre
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5 Aug 2022
Half of #species not assessed for endangered list risk extinction: study phys.org/news/2022-08-specie…
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4 Aug 2022
#Dolphins make peace and love—not war—when they encounter strangers science.org/content/article/…
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4 Aug 2022
Rare white #elephant born in Myanmar: state media phys.org/news/2022-08-rare-w…
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3 Aug 2022
#Pandas may have had ‘thumbs’ as early as 7 million years ago science.org/content/article/…
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3 Aug 2022
First photos of #cougars killing #donkeys in Death Valley suggest big impacts for ecosystem science.org/content/article/…
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3 Aug 2022
#Penguins adapt their accents to sound more like their friends
newscientist.com/article/232…
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4 Jul 2022
#Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly explain the #cephalopods' remarkable intelligence: Its genes have a genetic quirk that is also seen in humans, a new study finds.
livescience.com/jumping-gene…
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4 Jul 2022
A pair of #Orca (Killer #Whales) that have been terrorizing and killing Great White #Sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017 has managed to drive large numbers of the sharks from their natural aggregation site.
newsroom.taylorandfrancisgro…
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4 Jul 2022
A University of Queensland-led study has found humpback #whales can learn incredibly complex songs from whales from other regions.
“This really indicates a level of ‘cultural transmission’ beyond any observed non-human species,” Dr Allen said. @UQ_News
uq.edu.au/news/article/2022/…
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29 Jun 2022
Identifying #bird species by sound, an app opens new avenues for citizen #science phys.org/news/2022-06-bird-s…
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