Lars Holst Hansen

Close up of a muskox head with a group of muskoxen in the background in a tundra landscape with a but of snow still on the mountains

Muskoxen in Zackenberg from our LifePlan project camera traps.

Hmm OK! Aren’t most people in Svalbard not very aware of the real danger of polar bears?

Journal cover of Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research depicting a group of muskoxen in Greenland

Journal cover of GLobal Change BIology depicting a group of muskoxen in Greenland

A muskox photo of mine was used as cover on two different journals for these papers:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Although I wasn't directly involved in any of the studies, it feels nice to contribute with an image to the covers!

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You mean people do not look out for polar bears when the go out (for the reindeer) or they will go out when the next polar sighting in town happens?

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position in marcroecology at Copenhagen University. Focus on vertebrates, preferably birds.

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🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

Adult arctic fox in summer tundra landscape

Thought I would share some of my nature photos from Greenland. Here an adult Arctic fox in summer coat. We monitor the breeding of these as part of our long term ecosystem monitoring at Zackenberg.
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arctic fox in snow

This young arctic fox ended up on the cover of the Finnish magazine Luonto some time ago. I also get a fantastic feeling when my photos gets published.
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I just discovered this freely available book on digital signal processing and love the fact that it is“…intended for students … who may not have much mathematical or engineering training.” Seems like a great resource in bioacoustics!

#addMam pls

Muskoxen against an orange light

Muskoxen in a snow clad landscape with mountains in the background

Another of our GPS collared muskoxen seem to have died. At least the collar is stationary and we got a mortality alert.
Here is a few photos of live muskoxen...

Muskoxen in the snow at Zackenberg, Greenland

Positions of three GPS collared muskoxen at Zackenberg, Greenland

Three of the GPS collared muskoxen are hanging out near the research station at Zackenberg at the moment.

Track of muskox 75

Zackenberg Muskox 75 seemingly died on Oct. 6th. This is what a mortality position cluster looks like.

I really miss the option to share sounds and videos here on Bluesky! I should probably get an account on SoundCloud or the like.

You haven’t tried muskox rumination sound?….

I also find it cool to add another journal cover image to my selection!

Cover of Journal of Animal Ecology showing muskoxen in a snow covered landscape at Zackenberg in Greenland

Happy to have contributed to the paper "Accounting for behaviour in fine-scale habitat selection: A case study highlighting methodological intricacies" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
in the recent issue of Animal Ecology.

Have a look! It is open access!

Hi @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Please add me to the “What’s Science” feed! Thx

That's great! Thanks a lot!

I am struggling a bit with the profile banner image! I wonder what the best way to control it is!

They may look cute but they are very wild and can be quite aggressive. I have been bitten wearing HD welding gloves while handling one during a capture. It did not bite through but the force exerted drew blood from under my nail. So NO petting!

A person with binoculars and a rifle besides a female musk ox in a snow clad landscape

An arctic fox next to a person with a camera

Hi! I am Lars! I am an ecologist based in Denmark. I monitor & study muskoxen, arctic foxes, other critters & plants at Zackenberg in Northeast Greenland