Here is an incredible photo of two Bolivian river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) wrestling with a young green anaconda from Beni, Bolivia. I really wonder what is going on here, if they really tried to eat it or if it was some kind of playing behavior. Photo by Alejandro De Los Rios

Ever struggled to explain map projections? this might help :) mathigon.org/course/circles…

Museum's #Batman, @bertieportela looks after 30,000 bat specimens. Some specimens date back over 200 years, and could provide new insights into the relationship of bats and virus species, find out more: naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2021/10/27/bat… #TheBatman #TheBatmanMovie @NHM_Harwell Natural History Museum

Interested in doing machine learning stuff with bioacoustics? Here's a 🧵of recent reviews and methods papers to kick off your reading list. Add your own favorites if you have them!

More fish vertebrae!

Back from a week in the Central Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia for the first expedition of my PhD. Finding field sites, interviewing forest rangers & local people, eDNA sampling, recording soundscapes, cataloging species and taking in beautiful riparian ecosystems

Followed old logging trails for most of the way, across bogs, rivers and rocky terrain. Building bridges and pushing vehicles through thick mud. All with the pinnacle of transportation - 4 gear 125cc Honda dreams

Singaporean ecologist and artist Christian Ching joins our judging panel this year! His PhD with Natural History Museum, Conservation Intl & University of Southampton focuses on the monitoring of tropical riparian ecosystems using new sensor & genetic technologies.

How cool is #lidar? Well, it can see gators lurking beneath the surface, so I’d say it’s pretty dang awesome. #remotesensing #gischat

Our paper on evolutionary history and patterns of divergence in three tropical east Asian squirrels distributed across the Isthmus of Kra is out now in Biogeography.News onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… with melissa hawkins Jesus Maldonado Jennifer Leonard Smithsonian NMNH Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC Investigación US #MuseumGenomics

Less than one month to go until the Natural History Museum Student Conference. Key dates for NHM students below - check your email for the link to share your research! 🐸Abstract submission closes 2nd June 🌋Registration closes 9th June #NHMSC2023 NHM_Students

New palm that flowers underground! Its fruits are dispersed by bearded pigs and are actively sought after as a forest snack by people in Central Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesia). Congrats Dr Benedikt Kuhnhäuser and colleagues!

Too many carbon offsetting projects are ineffective globally and abusive locally. A new HRW report describes some of the human rights harms these projects can lead to, looking in detail at a major carbon offsetting project in Cambodia. hrw.org/news/2024/02/2…

#Cambodia sentenced 10 Mother Nature Cambodia environmental activists to 6-8 years in prison for plotting & insulting the king. For the five activists who attended the trial, this means a return to prison, although they've all been sent to separate prisons. news.mongabay.com/2024/07/mother…