Cat of the week: Silvia from Styx Valley. Cats groom regularly, using their comb-like tongue to keep their fur clean. This is why it feels like wet, fishy sandpaper when a pet-cat gives you a friendly lick. Nice hygiene there, Silvia.

Will turbo chooks survive changes in habitats in Tasmania? According to Lucile Lévêque from University of Tasmania & D.E.E.P. Group, they will be around for long thanks to the use of human-dominated landscapes. #ESAus21

PhD project + full stipend/scholarship working with us (Rodrigo Hamede, Nick Fountain-Jones and me) on modelling devil facial tumour disease: "Spatiotemporal, ecological and epidemiological dynamics of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils": utas.edu.au/our-research/r… Apply now!

New paper by Alexandra Paton Jessie Buettel and me (Barry Brook) on comparing inference made from camera-trap surveys versus finding animal poops, in Australian temperate forests: "Evaluating scat surveys as a tool for population and community assessments" publish.csiro.au/wr/WR21056

Welcome our newest member, PhD student Alejandra Gutiérrez! 👋 Alejandra will be using #bird surveys and camera traps to understand how Tasmanian bird communities respond to different pressures like land use, fire severity and human settlements.🦉 University of Tasmania Sciences and Engineering at University of Tasmania Postgraduate Society for Biological Sciences

Another new addition to the DEEP group this year is PhD student Laura Maria Cardona! 👋 Laura's project aims to understand the responses of #mammal species to human presence in protected areas across Tasmania.🦘 University of Tasmania Sciences and Engineering at University of Tasmania Postgraduate Society for Biological Sciences

A profile of our ongoing work. "Wildlife cameras help researchers understand Tasmania's native wildlife and feral species". Jessie Buettel and Alexandra Paton were also featured on the new on multiple channels and all the local newspapers. Go University of Tasmania ! abc.net.au/news/2022-02-0…

D.E.E.P. Group It is great to see the work of DEEP in the spotlight! Years of effort here by Barry Brook and Jessie Buettel, as well and all the members of the DEEP group who have developed machine learning methods, serviced camera traps, and sorted through thousands of images!

Excellent to get coverage on the camera trapping network that Barry Brook and I, alongside many from the D.E.E.P. Group team Sciences and Engineering at University of Tasmania have been labouring over the last 4 years!!

The fate of a carcass... Gone after the devil image. Gotta love a free meal! #Tasmania #Wilderness #Deadthings #Eagles #Quolls #CatsOfTwitter #Ecology

Full story here, worth a read: discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/m…

How could #rewilding King and Flinders Islands with Tassie devils and quolls help save threatened birds? University of Tasmania PhD candidate @mattwfielding has been investigating... abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1… 📷: King Island brown thornbill via ABC News Adrian Boyle #HelpedByHolsworth

Check out the latest news from the DEEP group! Including staff changes, media appearances and new members! deep-group.com/post/deep-grad…

This Bennetts wallaby is SOOOO CUTE, it was begging to be shared.

The best fur-plucking episode we’ve seen so far on our remote cameras! Went for about 30 min (and 2 separate instances). Near Savage River, Tasmania. Barry Brook

Eastern barred bandicoot babies near the Dismal Swamp, Tasmania

I did an interview with the lovely Robyn Williams for the ABC's Science Show a few weeks back, talking about my work monitoring feral cats in Tasmania. It provides a good summary of my PhD goals and feelings about pet cats😺 D.E.E.P. Group #CatsOfTwitter abc.net.au/radionational/…

A sequence of images from the north east of Tasmania showing a feral cat toying with a pygmy possum over the course of 11 minutes (one image taken every minute). While devastating, these kinds of encounters help demonstrate that feral cats are unbothered by white-flash cameras.

Honestly thought the feather boas would be the worst lure, but so far they are yielding some of the best pics. #CatsOnTwitter #Wildlife #Research D.E.E.P. Group

A beautiful island sunset, and a cat on the prowl 🐱