2/5 Flying foxes are able to travel long distances to #feed and #breed. They spend half of their time resting at the #roost and the other half #flying or #feeding, so it is very important to study their #movements to build spatially adapted management. #WBTC1 #MoveEco2

omg the comic flyinfox is sooo cut ❤️🦇

3/5 We have deployed GPS/ARGOS tags on 6 #Pteropus ornatus to better #understand their #movements on the main island of #newcaledonia and the distances from the #roost where they feed. #WBTC1 #MoveEco2

4/5 Marked individuals 1) cross the mountain range and provincial boundaries of New Caledonia, 2) use a network of roosts & 3) forage within an average radius of 4 km around their roost. #WBTC1 #MoveEco2

Animals don't know borders. It is important to manage them uniformly even on an island. The more we know about animals the better we can protect them

1) #WBTC1 #MoveEco2 Christmas Island flying-fox is the last native mammal on this 135km2 oceanic island 🇦🇺, but is #CriticallyEndangered Years of monitoring by @CIFFlyingFox has revealed a significant ♂️bias, which is of conservation concern, especially for a polygynous species

2) #WBTC1 #MoveEco2 A possible cause for the♂️bias might be that♀️ movement patterns render ♀️♀️ less detectable? We explored this by deploying GPS transmitters to 18♂️ & 12♀️. We collected up to 171 tracking days/🦇 Animal Ecology Lab BATsLAB Western Sydney U - HIE Lotek

3) #WBTC1 #MoveEco2 Roosting: while movement patterns among roosts changed over time, there was no difference between ♂️♂️&♀️♀️in tendency to roost away from established roost sites. However, outside these sites, ♀️♀️roosted further inland than males, at less accessible sites

4) #WBTC1 #MoveEco2 Foraging: habitat composition analysis shows 🎄🏝️🦇 forage non-randomly. ♀️♀️ have a greater preference for wetlands & evergreen forest than ♂️♂️, but these differences only approached significance. Animal Ecology Lab BATsLAB Western Sydney U - HIE Dr John Martin

5) #WBTC1 #MoveEco2 Prelim analyses showed♀️ roosted further inland in less accessible areas (to 👩‍🔬) & had differing foraging patterns. Combined this hints at a possible explanation of the ♂️ bias Further analyses will focus on foraging patterns & if bias differs with season

Se siete appassionati delle cronache del ghiaccio e del fuoco e avete la bava alla bocca se pensate a Martin che (non) scrive, forse 3 venuto il momento di seguire i ragazzi di Il Podcast del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco

It seems that some of you were able to recognize: the solution to our #spectrogramonday quiz: the little korora 🐧 This recorded couple was very loud can you recognize the two voices in the spectrogram? #avianz #makenzbirdsheard #bioacoustics

Echolocation of Central Amazonian ‘whispering’ phyllostomid #bats: call design and interspecific variation rdcu.be/b4u7F JUST OUT by @TallyYoh Peter Syme Ricardo Rocha Christoph Meyer & Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People

There is no better way to end the Queen's birthday weekend that a #spectrogramonday quiz. 🦜 ❓Can you guess the bird from the spectrogram of its call? #avianz #makenzbirdsheard #bioacoustics

I had the chance to win AudioMoth to the Australasian Bat Society conference 2020 #AusBatSoc2020, I would like to ask the fablab of my university to make me a case (3D printer). Does anyone have a plan to lend me? #audiomoth #3Dprinter #acoustic #ecology

There is no better way to celebrate NZ moving to alert level 1 than a #spectrogramonday quiz. Today we'd like to test you with a characteristic sound of one of our taonga species. 🐦 Can you guess the owner of this spectrogram sound? #makenzbirdsheard

Two days ago it was #worldalbratrossday, however, the solution of this week #spectrogramonday was the subantarctic skua 🐦 New Zealand coasts are the home of several #seabirds species, but it is not so easy to spot a #subantarcticskua. This is how its calls look like.⬇️ #avianz

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