LoRhino: Phase 1 youtu.be/XvFx4SxrmBw via YouTube

Good boy Masaka for my 100th diet transect 🦏🔍🌿💯 Looking forward to the final combination of all my datasets for my chapter on black rhino diet and feeding ecology, disentangling foraging choices and cues 🌿🧬🧪 #BlackRhinoEcology The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project

Recently we fitted a new set of transmitters to a few of our black rhino gang. These LoRa horn pods will hopefully give some insight into what these guys get up to 🦏📶 #blackrhino #dicerosbicornis #criticallyendangered #conservation #movementecology The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project

Last week we presented some of our work at SavannaScienceNM Vanessa Duthé on the effect of dehorning on black rhino home ranges, Rickert on the viability of using horn caps for tracking, @philippinesurer on diet overlap using DNA metabarcoding, @Marionfischer25 on parasite load & diet

Our latest work on the impact of dehorning on black rhino home ranges featured in Science 🦏 Cutting off rhino horns to prevent poaching makes them homebodies | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl… The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project Sergio Rasmann Emmanuel Defossez

The New York Times take on the results of our newest dehorning study 🦏 Rhinos’ Horns Were Cut to Thwart Poachers. After, They Didn’t Go Out Much. nytimes.com/2023/06/12/cli… The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project Sergio Rasmann Emmanuel Defossez

Article sur notre étude publiée dans PNAS cette semaine, l'impact du décornage sur les territoires du rhinocéros noir 🦏 Décorner les rhinocéros a un impact sur leur comportement | via @letemps letemps.ch/sciences/envir… The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project

To deter poachers, some rhinos have been dehorned. But the practice affects rhino behavior, according to a new study. The territories of dehorned rhinos shrunk by an average of 45.5% after the procedure, and dehorned rhinos became less social. In PNAS: ow.ly/kYWN50OQk6R