Student Spotlight - Holly Broadhurst Email: h.a.broadhurst@edu.salford.ac.uk Twitter: @BroadhurstHolly Instagram: @PinkHaired_Scientist Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/mcdevittlab/home I have just entered the 2nd year of my PhD at the University of Salford, in collaboration with … [Read more...] about Monitoring Mammals with a Drop of Water
Blogs
See below for our latest blog posts:
Placement opportunity at Mammal Society – Race4Nature
The organisation Race4Nature is making use of the government's Kickstart scheme to tackle the longstanding lack of racial diversity in the environmental sector. The environmental sector is officially the second-least racially diverse profession in the country, after farming. This is a real problem, … [Read more...] about Placement opportunity at Mammal Society – Race4Nature
The Secret Social Lives of Horseshoe Bats
Student Spotlight - Luke Romaine Email: luke.romaine@bristol.ac.uk Twitter: @lukerbio Lab website: https://www.garethjoneslab.com/ Beady black eyes, enormous ears, and a satellite dish for a nose. Of course, I am referring to none other than the horseshoe bats. Both British species, the lesser … [Read more...] about The Secret Social Lives of Horseshoe Bats
Defecating in the Moonlight: Links between Lunar Phase and Latrine Use by European Badgers
Student Spotlight - Will Cresswell Email: wjcresswell@googlemail.com I’m a 3rd year student studying Zoology at the University of Bristol. My dissertation partner Cosmo Robertson-Charlton and I have been studying the ecology of urban badgers (Meles meles) in Bristol. In particular, our research … [Read more...] about Defecating in the Moonlight: Links between Lunar Phase and Latrine Use by European Badgers
Mammal Photographer of the Year – is your entry in?
The deadline for submission of entries for this year’s Mammal Photographer of the Year competition is drawing closer! Have you taken a great photo of one of Britain’s elusive wild animals in the last eleven months? We would love to see it! We’re looking for opportunistic photographs of … [Read more...] about Mammal Photographer of the Year – is your entry in?
Camera trapping for small mammals
By Rose Toney and Nick Littlewood Camera traps have revolutionised mammal recording. With lowering costs and increasing functionality, many Mammal Society members now use them for monitoring local wildlife. They are a window into a secret world, helping to monitor movements of Badgers, Foxes, … [Read more...] about Camera trapping for small mammals
In Search of Arctic Foxes
Student Spotlight - Andrew Barrett Email: ecobarrett@gmail.com Twitter: @ecobarrett The most exciting aspect of a research project for me, and I’m sure for many others, is the fieldwork, and I wish to share with you my insights and experience from carrying out fieldwork to study arctic foxes … [Read more...] about In Search of Arctic Foxes
#PlasticInMammals by Emily Dempster
My name is Emily Dempster and I am currently in my final year of my Zoology MSci at University of Sussex and have been working on this research for the past year for my final project. I have volunteered with the Mammal Society for the last 18 months on a number of projects and am now hoping to … [Read more...] about #PlasticInMammals by Emily Dempster
