Rob Davis
@RobDavis1104
Postdoc @WildEcoLabNMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • PhD @NTU_ARES 🇲🇼🐆🍪 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera traps 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦔🦡 • @ChelseaFC fan ⚽
Stoked to see this paper out! 🤩
🚨 New #OA paper from @WildEcoLabNMU in @ConservationSP 🤩 Led by Marna Visagie, @HoniballT & @RobDavis1104 we estimate spotted hyaena population density in @SANParksAENP and assess the influence of sex on SCR parameters! 📸🐾
Seems like elephants aren't keen on small carnivore camera trapping! 🤣🐘😤 Mostela - 0 Elephant - 1 A good trunk selfie though! 🤣🐘 #Elephantsandfieldworkdontmix #Elephants #Cameratrap
Beginning the long journey from George to the border yesterday! 🇳🇦🇿🇦 On our way to @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2024! 🤩
@WildEcoLabNMU are on their way to #SAWMA2024 in Namibia! 🇳🇦 1,000km+ yesterday and camping on the Orange River before crossing the border into Namibia today! 🇳🇦 Arriving in Windhoek tomorrow! 🤩🇿🇦🇳🇦
Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last Sept for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a huge help & all our students are now progressing well with their spatial data analysis! Sign up for the full course & also see our beautiful George Campus! 🐾🌿🇿🇦 👇
📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 George, South Africa, August 2025 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
Enjoy the footage of this cheetah going past Hotel Anokhi in Sheopur!
#WATCH | Cheetah Flees Enclosures Of Kuno National Park; Seen Wandering In Sheopur's Residential Area #MadhyaPradesh #Cheetah #kunonationalpark #mpnews
🚨New research on Uganda’s largest carnivore survey in @ELSenviron GECCO! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🦁26,000 km driven, 232 camera sites show lions in decline in Kidepo and QE, but hope in Murchison (240 🦁). Hyenas faring well, leopards strong in Murchison & Mburo. Our work brings…
Wahoo proud supervisor moment! 🤩 My Honours student, Kamil, received the top mark in his class for his research project where we tested the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! 📸🇿🇦🐾 We got some fantastic results & great to see his hard work pay off! 😊
Excited to see this out! This paper started off as a presentation at the @imidibaniso_sc Eco-Communications Symposium in 2022 and it’s been a long journey to its final form… Thank you to special issue editors Mehita Iqani and Meghan Judge 👏
✨New paper ✨ leveraging the internet's obsession with cat videos to drive Open Science 😺 Open Access article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Social media can help aid wildlife conservation efforts through public awareness and engagement, finds new study @GabiLeighton says attractive species can be more successful in gaining public interest and awareness to help conservation efforts 🐈 spr.ly/6017SaaVh
Verschueren et al. conducted a mammal survey in the Ondjou Conservancy in Namibia, an understudied area in the KAZA TCA. Analysing 317,758 camera-trap images, they identified 18 carnivore species, finding occurrence increased further from the main village: doi.org/npb8
Awesome weekend at #Embizweni cottage in @SANParksKrNP! 🤩 Totally remote, complete silence and didn't see another car/person all weekend! 😁 A proper Karoo experience and a top place to stay across all the SA national parks! 🇿🇦 #KarooNationalPark
An important framework for large carnivore monitoring moving forward! 🦁🐾📸
Our new @CommsBio paper highlights Ugandan wildlife tourism ranger efforts in tracking & protecting lions in the Nile Delta. Time to bring these unsung heroes to the forefront of monitoring efforts! 🦁🌿 #ugandan #Rangers nature.com/articles/s4200…
📢I am recruiting a PhD student in applied quantitative ecology .@FCFCMontana .@umontana to work on large mammal monitoring. More information: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…
We had an amazing week at the @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2024 in Windhoek! 🇳🇦🦓 From the road trip up to Windhoek (via Sossusvlei), to an excellent and jam packed conference excellently hosted by @Save_Giraffe 🦒, the whole week was a blast! 🤩 Some great lab presentations too!