Hansraj Gautam

The Captive Breeding Myth: Why Zoo-Based “Conservation” Fails Elephants Captive breeding programs for elephants are often sold to the public as essential to conservation. But peel back the glossy marketing, and you’ll find a contradictory and broken system that prioritize...

www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/the-cap...
Good clear analysis

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD position.

If interested, email me by 27 July (5 PM, Melbourne time). Please review the application requirements carefully before submitting your application. See more about our research here shawanchowdhurylab.com.

Similarly, in 2021 ⬇️ #mdpi

Alpha males are surprisingly rare among primates – new research In most primates one sex isn’t dominant over the other.

More on how to resist 'alpha' males.

Females need #coalitions and the ability to say 'No'

#primates #dominance

https://theconversation.com/alpha-males-are-surprisingly-rare-among-primates-new-research-260472

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!

Dear colleagues,

There is an open postdoctoral position to work with the SeedArc seed germination database: doi.org/10.1111/nph.....

All the details are in the attached image. Please share this with your networks—someone might be interested in applying.

For more info: www.unioviedo.es/seedarc/

Systemic territoriality in academia: The Gollum effect’s impact on scientific research and careers Addressing environmental challenges requires scientific collaboration, access to resources, and open knowledge exchange. However, possessive behaviors…

Here's and interesting Friday read:
Scientific progress thrives on collaboration & knowledge sharing, yet territorial behaviors in academia, which the authors call the Gollum Effect, threaten this foundation

Open access link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exciting news at Cambridge! We are launching the Darwin-Hamied Centre to promote research at the intersection of biodiversity and economics christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-.... We are advertising two 5-year Senior Research Fellowships—application deadline 22nd June! christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...

WTAF!

We have a few open slots in the one-day symposium

Plant–Microbe Biodiversity under Global Change

on 12 June 2025 at the University of Helsinki 🌱🦠🌍!

For more info, please visit
lainelab.net/news/

Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)

Nice! Congratulations, Revathe.

Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Mothers play a crucial role in the early development and survival of mammalian offspring, and differences in maternal care may affect offspring’s development. Whereas previous research has primarily focused on biological and socioecological factors to ...

New paper alert! Our study on consistent individual variation in Sumatran orangutan maternal behaviour is out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! Using ~6000h of observation, we show that mothers are not all the same when it comes to parenting. (1/n)
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Young Asian elephant calves show differentiated social relationships with conspecifics Social relationships may increase longevity and reproductive success of individuals, thereby providing crucial benefits in social species. Adults of many social species have differentiated social rela...

New preprint from our study on Asian elephant calves of the Kabini population, India. This work was done as part of my PhD with TNC Vidya, where we investigated calf social relationships. More info below.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

Calves interacted similarly with their mothers & escorts under different contexts & almost never interacted with other females. Remarkable similarities existed bw mothers' & escorts' behaviors towards calves. These results suggest that calves form differentiated relationships from a young age.

Join the MacaqueNet family!

We’re looking for a postdoc to study the link between social structure and lifespan across species, using MacaqueNet data and a new life-history database.

Feel free to reach out—I'm happy to chat about MacaqueNet, CRAB, or living in Exeter.

shorturl.at/xyNsL

Flower to pleased leaf: Oh leaf, thank you for making me food. I am nothing without you. Root to flower: Boss, we're out of water. Flower chucks away sad leaf.

Aren't plants wonderful.
By @thesquarecomics.bsky.social
🌹🍃

Cool study! Congratulations.

So happy that this massive effort by several lab people, led by @vrindarvkm.bsky.social, became an interesting story. For more about adaptation to different habitats, from different start points, read on!

Hi. I would love to be added.
I work on 🐘 dominance and sociality

1/11
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨
We are proud to have Behaviour 2025 declared as the summer meeting of ASAB this year!
If you're an ethologist or simply passionate about animal behaviour, don't miss the chance to be a part of it !
Start planning your visit now and avail the conference attendance grants available

🚀 Behaviour 2025 programmes structure is out! 🗓️

✨ Dive into diverse symposia, plenary talks & cutting-edge research in animal behaviour! 🌍🐾

Start planning your Kolkata adventure now—science, networking & culture await!

Check the programme overview details 👇:
behaviourindia2025.in/programme.html

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Climate change extinctions Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...

Must read out in @science.org "Climate change extinctions"
by @MarkCUrban (on X)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big take home:
"extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. The highest-emission scenario would threaten approximately one-third of species, globally."

Thank you to all the folks who have followed me 🙏

Wish you all a very happy new year!

I promise to be more active here from now on.

A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447

Jimmy Carter said Free Palestine and that’s really beautiful. RIP LEGEND