Niharika Marella

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Four cubs sit in front of a sleeping male Asiatic lion. Photo taken in Gir National Park, Gujarat, India, with Canon R10 and RF 100-400mm lens.

Two male Asiatic lions lounge in the early evening sun. One is lying on the ground while the other is sitting up. Taken in Gir National Park, Gujarat, India, with Canon R10 and RF 100-400mm lens.

A portrait of a male Asiatic lion looking into the camera. Morning light falls on his face and illuminates his eyes. Taken in Gir National Park, Gujarat, India with Canon R10 and RF 100-400mm lens

A male Asiatic lion walks along the road, illuminated by dramatic light. There is a safari vehicle a distance behind him. Taken in Gir National Park, Gujarat, India with Canon R10 and RF 100-400mm lens.

I just returned from a visit to Gir National Park, my favourite place in the world, and the last home of the Asiatic Lion. We were blessed with incredible sightings, and here are a few photos from the trip! I'll likely post more as well as I process and edit the photos!

#wildlife #photography

Update from Saadani Lion Project: After 100 days of intense fieldwork, we wrapped up the SECR population estimation survey for 🦁 in Saadani NP. Besides getting to see these unique and shy🦁, I am extremely intrigued with how frequently they hunt big prey like🦒🐃 #mammals 🦊
CW: Predation📸

Work hard and play hard!

Hello new followers 👋🏼 Just chiming in from our fieldsite in Saadani NP, Tanzania. We are wrapping up our lion population survey and guess what? Sorting lion-id photos have never come with a better view 🤩 #AcademicSky #Fieldwork #mammals

If you’re an R user: www.r-causal.org/chapters/05-...

Hiii, Bluesky! We are Minorities in Shark Sciences, a nonprofit organization seeking to promote diversity and inclusion in shark research. 🦈 Nice to meet you! 💙

💻: www.misselasmo.org

A black and white cat sits on a bag and looks politely into the camera.

Showing off my polite boy!

#cat

Flexible Learning and Re-ordering of Context-dependent Object Sequences in Nonhuman Primates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.24.625056v1 Intelligent behavior involves mentally arranging learned information in novel ways and is particular

Flexible Learning and Re-ordering of Context-dependent Object Sequences in Nonhuman Primates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.24.625056v1

Need to get haters out of your life, pro- or re-actively? @skysentry.bsky.social has some super helpful lists where you can mass block masses of f'wits with one click. Thank you, @skysentry.bsky.social!

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Bird bander: pass me the cup, quickly! I’ve got to weigh this 🤬 chickadee before it draws any more blood.

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Comparative cognition researcher: I wonder if this animal will drop some stones into this cup

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏

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I have a really exciting PhD opportunity on a highly novel topic: flow state in animals! This is open to students worldwide, drawing on the University of Bristol's strengths in animal cognition, animal welfare and human game design www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I made a Carnivore Ecologists Starter Pack! If you want to be added, please let me know 🤩🐻🐻‍❄️🐺🦨🦡🐾🦭🦊🦦🦝🐆🐅

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I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one!

If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other.

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New paper! If you use animal tracking data, this one's for you!

Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging

Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u

WildDrone on LinkedIn: #wilddroneeu #tech4wildlife #conservationtechnology #horizoneu #msca… Ph.D Candidate Saadia Afridi, currently on secondment at the University of Bristol, is leading crucial research as part of the WildDrone project. Her recent…

From LinkedIn, an update from Saadia Afridi, one of our PhD students on the WildDrone MSCA Project. Saadia is working to develop drones that are less disturbing to wildlife, and gearing up for fieldwork in Kenya with some work at the Bristol Zoo:

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By popular demand @science.org is on Bluesky!! No posts until after Thanksgiving, but stand by! @karaestellepowers.bsky.social @kakape.bsky.social @jakeyeston.bsky.social

Genuinely shook by how many folks have moved to BlueSky! Even some institutions are making the switch! The migration might be real!

It has been a hot minute since I've been on here! The PhD hunt continues and I've been doing some remote work back home.

I wanted to ask what the ecology Academic community is like on here? Is it as active compared to Twitter? Not the biggest fan but felt the most updates happen there.

Proud to announce that late November, I finally graduated with a Master of Science in Animal Behaviour from the University of St Andrew's!

It's been a wild, wild ride, and I look forward to what comes next!

Komodo dragons must be so happy to finally get the attention they deserve 😁

You're a lifesaver! I'll also spend some time looking at the blog posts you linked. PhD is still a bit away for me but I figure I better get the process started now itself so I can better prepare myself for the future!

That's a good idea! I've actually wanted to reach out to Craig Packer but couldn't find him on social media! Thanks so much for the help though!

A question to the academics here, where do I start looking if I wish to study lions (preferably African but ideally both African and Asiatic lions) for a PhD? A bit overwhelmed by the internet, heh.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #wildlife #ecology #mammals

Or just copy paste code from stackoverflow and wonder why it doesn't work and realise you missed a bracket somewhere

The cat larynx can produce purring sounds without cyclical neural input A recent investigation led by voice scientist Christian T. Herbst from the University of Vienna, published in Current Biology, delivers novel insights into how cats produce their purring sounds. A spe...

#Cats

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