OK here we go, packing for our most ambitious #MammalWatching trip yet, on the search for Pallas's cat and lynx in the Ladakhi High Himalayas (and if a snow leopard turns up, we won't complain). Using the trusty kit list spreadsheet to prepare for -10°C & 5800m. 🤞🐱🔭 #WildIndia

My talk exploring the #thylacine , the mystery surrounding one of the earliest European artworks of the species, and how art and museum specimens supported the propaganda that led to their deliberate #extinction , is now on the The Linnean Society of London's YouTube:
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You can watch my talk 'Drawn to Extinction', exploring the #thylacine , the mystery surrounding one of the earliest European artworks of the species, and how art and museum specimens supported the propaganda that led to their deliberate #extinction . 👇

It's my museumiversary - I joined Museum of Zoology, Cambridge six years ago today! It's been a hectic but immensly rewarding time. Let's see what #MuseumLife brings along next! 🥳

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A wombat's eye-view.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat s #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat

Jack Ashby The Linnean Society of London Drawn To Extinction - Depicting The Thylacine. Online talk from Jack Ashby for The Linnean Society of London exploring cultural & extinction history of Thylacinus cynocephalus, Tasmanian tiger/Tasmanian wolf, using original 1809 John Lewin painting as focal point. #thylacine #extinct #sciart

Fantastic afternoon at Jack Ashby's talk on depictions of #thylacines . The one below is the first and last western depiction of a live thylacine in the wild. Jack Ashby

Possibly the most intriguing western painting of a #thylacine I've come across. Today at 2pm (UK time), I'll be giving a free online The Linnean Society of London talk about this artwork, and how depictions of #thylacine s contributed to their #extinction .
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THIS IS TOMORROW! Log in for a chat about how depictions of the #thylacine were improtant in our relationship with them, as European settlers deliberately drove them to #extinction .

Researchers say they can genetically modify endangered #quolls so they're immune to invasive #CaneToad toxins, and suggest they'll be extinct in 10 years without it (this is not a number I've seen elsewhere). I spoke to BBC Wildlife about the ethics of engineering a wild species:

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Name a mammal that's more perfectly spherical than a young wombat. I'll wait.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat s #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat

Right then. I've been working in zoology #museums for 20 years... It's time to find out what the botanists get up to. #SquashingPlants 🪴🌱🌿🌾🌵☘️ #Herbarium

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Wild Wombat Wilderness.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat s #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat

The #thylacine is extinct because farmers convinced politicians they were killing their sheep - they weren't. History repeating itself with Swiss #wolves .

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