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USU Today wrote about our research on a new device for deterring livestock predators. 🧪🐑🐂 Commercially available soon - bug herddogg.com! url:https://www.usu.edu/today/story/simple-flashing-ear-tag-technology-shows-promise-for-deterring-livestock-predators

Long‐term benefits of burns for large mammal habitat undermined by large, severe fires in the American West Escalating wildfire frequency and severity are altering wildland habitats worldwide. Yet investigations into fire impacts on wildlife habitat rarely extend to the macroecological scales relevant to s...

Fun to be a small part of a big 🔥🐆🦌🐻 paper published in @ecography.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Leveraging multiple data sources to assess competition between introduced wild pigs and native deer Introduced species have diverse impacts on native wildlife and ecosystems. Negative effects of introduced species on native species through competition or amensalism are frequently hypothesized, but ...

🧪🐷🦌New paper out today on (lack of) competition between native deer and wild pigs: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The real story is "people haven't observed all the animals that use tools yet"

According to the paper, maybe 1 other...but I bet there are more. Don't rule out social learning!

Potential Tool Use by Wolves (Canis lupus): Crab Trap Pulling in Haíɫzaqv Nation Territory Recently, recurring damage to crab traps used by Haíɫzaqv Nation Guardians to control a European Green Crab invasion was investigated with remote cameras. A wolf was recorded emerging from the water ...

The publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

See how this wolf steals fish, a new discovery of animals using tools Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.

Tool use by wolves! So cool: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Tech position - urban mesocarnivores Field technician: Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources Project: Mesocarnivore urban ecology. Description: We are seeking a field technician to capture and fit GPS collars on coyotes...

🚨 Hiring a field technician! Help us live-trap (for GPS collars) and camera-trap mesocarnivores in Wichita, KS! See details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🦊🐱

🚨 Live or want to visit Michigan this winter? Come work for us! Short-term tech job in December, with housing: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... 🐻🧪❄️

ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations. Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)

Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.

More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

Our paper just came out on animal behavior & translocations! 🧪
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Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways | PNAS Diverse factors, including environmental features and cognitive processes, can drive animals’ movements and space use, with far-reaching implicatio...

Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪

We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...

Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

Oops, wrong tag. It's @wwdtm-podcast-bot.bsky.social

I've worked with >1 guy named Wolf(e) now...and know a kid named Fox (after his grandpa) by his dad who studied foxes. All too common, just look at bird people and they're last names 🧐

Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.

Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...

I'm not certain the policies of WCC, who will be the hiring org. I suggest applying and to reach out to the contact on the advertisement to see.

Thanks!

Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs.

Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Joe, Lovin, Emily, and Julie behind Red Wolf SAFE sign.

Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺

Correct! But also that we could do better at finding livestock depredations.

Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiven...

New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮

Health as an outcome and driver of human–wildlife interactions Abstract. Human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) influence the health of humans and wildlife but a unifying framework is needed to understand the causes of HWI

Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication:
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Ref fox laying in grass at a cemetery, missing 1 eye

Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.

Fried chicken wings!

Hanging lure in a box trap for red fox 🦊

Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞