Diego Lizcano

Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
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Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a decade, two Indigenous communities deep in…

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]

Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.

Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla): This incredible mammal from Central & South America can eat 30,000 termites or ants in a day. Great photo taken by Marjorie Socha in Brazil. #anteater #ants #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #brazil

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social asks which of BHL’s 63 million pages are the most important. Clearly the most important page on BHL is the first scientific description of the platypus 😉: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #LivingData2025 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL

Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data Biodiversity loss due to agricultural expansion and intensification is well documented. Accordingly, the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for transforming agroecosystems towards sustainable managem...

Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Saving Sound Level Data from BirdNET-GO to a CSV file BirdNET-GO is a newer BirdNET-based project.

Saving Sound Level Data from BirdNET-GO to a CSV file. dlizcano.github.io//english/Sou... #BirdNET-Go #Docker #BirdNET #Homelab #HA

It went well!!!

Excited to have been part of the developer team! 🐾 Beyond providing access to the List of Mammals of Colombia, it helps map species records and validate coordinates against administrative boundaries. Looking forward to feedback & future updates! #science #MamíferosColombia #CienciaCriolla #SCMas

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia The goal of mammalcol is to provide easy access to a meticulously structured dataset of Colombian mammal species in R. The 2025 update includes comprehensive, detailed species accounts, and distributi...

mammalcol is now on CRAN. Get easy access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia using #mammalcol #R package #rstats
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity. The need for a new, quantitative framework that defines diel activity logically consistently while capturing species plasticity. Just one of 200 co-authors.... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...