resource ephemerality and the behavior, morphology, physiology animals use to deal with them. also leader of the best research team ever, prone to typos.
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once in my life I (we!!) rank first and third on Amazon. In mammal zoology, but still :D @MPI_animalbehav @maxplanckpress @insighteditions @stri_panama @smithsonian #batisland #Panama #tropicalbats #NaturePhotography
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out today, breathtaking pics by @zieglerphoto1, text by Rachel Page, @teague_o, Marco Tschapka and myself. In tribute to Eli Kalko. @MPI_animalbehav @stri_panama @insighteditions @stri_panama @BatConIntl @animaltracking @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @GlobalBatNet @globalsouthbats
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last in my collection of species portraits for now: this adorable #Phyllostomus ❤️🦇 by @LittleLeapers_ I am hoping to expand! So if you want to draw a Molossus, a Rousettus, a Tadarida or a common shrew or mole - reach out! Best to batichica.blsky.social #swansong #leaving
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next up in my collections of #illustrations of my study species is the one that got me my PhD: #Lophostoma, my forever love, the most gentle bat out there. Juvenile male, beautifully rendered by the wonderful @LittleLeapers_
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here‘s nr 3 of my collection of drawings of my study species: one of my first, since 2007 and to this day, though they‘re more @jenna_kohles now #noctilio. The species I did my first #groupforaging work with. Love love love them ❤️🦇😂 also by @GessingerGloria #sciart #Panabat
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second in my collection of #illustrations of study species is another by @GessingerGloria - my Afrucan „baby“ #Eidolon helvum 🦇❤️🥭🍊another one where we study #migration Looking spooked for a reason, their numbers are dropping @eidolonnetwork @bats_w_borders
one day I will have an original drawing or painting of all my study species (I hope). This one is by @GessingerGloria 🦇❤️ and it‘s Nyctalus noctula, the #bat I study closest to home ar least at one end of its #migration #scientificillustration @MPI_animalbehav @maxcine_mpiab
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one day I will have an original drawing or painting of all my study species (I hope). This one is by @GessingerGloria 🦇❤️ and it‘s Nyctalus noctula, the #bat I study closest to home ar least at one end of its #migration #scientificillustration @MPI_animalbehav @maxcine_mpiab
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(4/4) and in her third chapter she really sat on the bats‘ shoulder to see how they fulfil their energetic needs in real life. You‘ll need to keep your eyes peeled for this one but let me say that much: making sperm is expensive!!
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(2/4) her first chapter is a lab experiment where she discovered that common noctules can maintain extremely low #heartrates and oxygen consumption across temperatures from 0-30 degrees regardless of reproductive status. doi.org/10.1007/s00360-022-0…
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And oh, how she shone (shined?) - congratulaions Dr. @lara_keicher for you brilliant defense of your thesis 🤩 you had us hanging on to your every word @imprs_qbee @Bats_at_Brown @MPI_animalbehav @maxcine_mpiab #noctule #energy #spermatogenesis
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today is a big day for the @dechmannlab as our @lara_keicher defends her brilliant thesis on energetic strategies of bats including rare quantitative data on the lab effect - cross your fingers! doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad040 @MPI_animalbehav @imprs_qbee @Bats_at_Brown @maxcine_mpiab
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When you think about foraging bats, to you imagine them flying 25km, crossing the sea to lick some nectar? Me neither? Our paper on how Panama spear-nosed bats do it differently is online at Animal Behaviour! doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.20… @MPI_animalbehav @teague_o @stri_panama
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or another tree, this one in a paper on mammalian brain size evolution: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe21… I could go on and on…but: don‘t hire him cause then he won‘t have time for our commissions 😇😂
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or this illustration for a primer on #roostmaking in bats: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.1… @CurrentBiology
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for example this phylogenetic tree for an upcoming book about the bat research done in Panama @stri_panama @teague_o
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finally also managed the #labcake about this study @EdwardHurme @RolandKays @BlairRCostelloe @martinwikelski @teague_o Ben Koger @eidolonnetwork
German podcast about the importance of #Eidolon and also about the importance of counting them. mpg.de/20697169/wie-wichtig-… @eidolonnetwork @KasankaPark @maxcine_mpiab @MPI_animalbehav
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really nice report about the incredible work of @zieglerphoto1 on the #bats in #Kasanka National Park
smoton.com/ij1mwrtf-mait8puo…
@KasankaTrust @KasankaPark @eidolonnetwork @RolandKays @MPI_animalbehav @helenfromz #fruitbats #Eidolon
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Take 5 min and report an online store selling bats! Sellers claim they find them dead or that they are bred. Both are lies. Bats are always sourced from the wild. My heart bleeds for this gorgeous #Hipposideros I reported today.
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guess the publication date of our #bat book - it‘s perfect (and accidental). Buy a but less beer for #Halloween and treat yourself to the gorgeous pics of @zieglerphoto1 (it‘s up for preorder, hint hint) @stri_panama @MPI_animalbehav
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for once it is not about individual reversible brain size (though I am sure they have that, too, like weasels), but the domestication effect. We breed animals to be stupid, domesticated animals have smaller brains, and when they become feral this is usually irreversible
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today this paper came out: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230463 and it makes me happy because the lead author is the student who did this for her bachelor, a young woman who will go far. The paper is on #mink brains and the fact that their size is reversible @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking
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listen to a bat's heart beat piped.video/watch?v=l-C4vuyX…
the lab effect - don‘t forget the lab effect! Also cute bats and their beating hearts ❤️🦇❤️ @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking #heartrate #noctule #Nyctalus #tracking #seasonal
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it‘s an #atlas based on #mri and #histology as well as a genetic profile to facilitate work and collaboration on #DehnelsPhenomenon a massive seasonal shrinking and regrowth of the brain in shrews (and moles and weasels doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2023.1… @lazaroillustrat #HFSP funded
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others just print out the first page of their new paper, but @cecibaldons is special ❤️ the #sorexaraneus #brainatlas has been out a while but it has been such a huge multiyear effort it‘s worth sharing again @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking @LabDavalos #shrewcrew
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better late than never when it comes to cake no? you publish, you bake is our tradition so I made an upside-down pie cause 🦇🦇 for this paper I weite with the amazing Rachel Page inly 6 months late 😂😇 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.1… @CurrentBiology
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@cecibaldons invited Dino Scaravelli for a talk so he finally actually came to visit. Lots of bat and shrew talking going on as well as strawberryrisotto #fieldbiologist #putthebootson #italianbiologist #crypticbats @jenna_kohles @ellenyye @mc_calderonc
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we cannot offer money but a free copy of the book, which is entirely dedicated to the bats on Barro Colorado Island. And Eli of course
#molossids #Panama #neotropicalbats #murcielago #BarroColoradoIsland
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looking for portraits of the following bats: Eumops auripendulus, Eumops glaucinus, Molossus coibensis, Molossus currentium for a book on bats of BCI, The book is an hommage to Eli Kalko‘s work with photos by @zieglerphoto1 and will be amazing
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dear #Nature this paper title is misleading, outdated and as it stands, wrong. Yes, Nipah is horrible. But luckily it‘s one of the few bat borne viruses we know to spill over based on scientific evidence so far. You contribute to the very damaging fear mongering with this
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#papercake! one of the effects of #climatechange we found is drier souls and fewer earthworms a.k.a. #shrew food. The cake clearly demonstrates pre-climate change conditions #tradition #shrewcrew #sorex @MPI_animalbehav
new paper out! climate change affects overall size of shrews as well as increases the extent of seasonal skull size changes!! @LabDavalos @lazaroillustrat @MPI_animalbehav
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there's no end to how fascinating shrews are. I am amazed every day that they even survive a single day and yet they are so successful! And cute! #ShrewCrew #Sorex #climatechange
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we x-rayed 50 years' worth of shrews for this. They were stored in giant vats, filled to the brim with dead animals and alcohol, untouched since decades. We're talking about in dead animals up to your armpits (special shout-out to Marion)
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ok one is P.pipistrellus, the others are pygmaeus. Nobody got it right so far, so here‘s another pic with the ppip against only four pyg
and then there‘s days like this ❤️🦇❤️ Here‘s a challenge: one of the seven #bars in my hand is a different species. He‘s a boy and we interrupted him mating (we were very sorry), do you know which one? @MPI_animalbehav @lara_keicher @jenna_kohles
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and then there‘s days like this ❤️🦇❤️ Here‘s a challenge: one of the seven #bars in my hand is a different species. He‘s a boy and we interrupted him mating (we were very sorry), do you know which one? @MPI_animalbehav @lara_keicher @jenna_kohles
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deformation professionelle 😂 do y‘all (I was recently in Texas) see a romantic collection of decaying statues? I see a perfect #thyroptera roost 😂 (note I am in Germany and they‘re neotropical #bats) #discwingedbat #bat #Panama
triple featured on the homepage of the Max Planck Society! That‘s a date to note in my calendar ❤️🥹mpg.de/en @animaltracking @LabDavalos #DehnelsPhenomenon #brainsize #seasonality #humbled
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What‘s your bucket list bat? I am obsessed with finding Lophostoma kalkoae, which was only recorded twice. Both times on Pipeline road in Panama and in EXCAVATED ANT NESTS! The other is Balionycteris maculata, which also excavates ant and termite nests.
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lab tradition „paper cake“ (has to be paper themed), today it was Polish cinnamon rolls because they are what kept @lara_keicher alive while doing field work in #Bialowieza collecting data for the first chapter of her PhD doi.org/10.1007/s00360-022-0… @animaltracking
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#happysad : Angi has finished her bachelor thesis on the cognitive compromise #DehnelsPhenomenon causes in #shrews. When you brain shrinks in winter they solve an associative learning task less well. All the best for your next step, Angi, we'll miss you #shrewcrew @cecibaldons
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also, as always, the paper is much enhanced by the illustrations of @lazaroillustrat - moles just became even cooler!! @martinwikelski @DinaDechmann @shrew_master @ShrewGod #DehnelsPhenomenon #Sorex #Talpa
we've added another species to the small pool of those that have Dehnel's Phenomenon: reversible seasonal brain and skull size changes in #moles. Here's a great write up (even if they call #shrews rodents): nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022… @MPI_animalbehav @animaltracking @LabDavalos
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congratulations Dr. @ben_koger on a beautiful PhD that was well defended! I mean anything that has #Eidolon it it is cool, but your work will be important for years to come @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav @BlairRCostelloe #ZamBats
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the visit with Dianne and Lee at @AustinBatRefuge was very special. Thank you two for being 🦇❤️ #batconservation #rescue #bats #keepAustinweird
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