Elise Say-Sallaz
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Elise Say-Sallaz
@elisesaysallaz.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher | large carnivore ecology 🐺🦁 | Predator prey interactions 🦌🦓| Human wildlife conflict 🐑 🏔️
🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....
African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera‐traps on the fine‐scale spatio‐temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards
Coexistence of sympatric large carnivores is common in many ecosystems. On the one hand, the potential for competitive interactions, from kleptoparasitism to intraguild predation, is high, so species...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Un grand merci à @alexandradelbot.bsky.social d’avoir pris le temps de m’écouter et d’avoir fait une chronique sur notre papier pour France Culture !
October 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Notre article figure dans @sciencesetavenir.bsky.social un grand merci à eux !
"Ce que l'on oublie souvent, c’est que le prédateur le plus dangereux du monde aujourd’hui, c’est l’Homme. (...) Croiser un humain est dangereux, les animaux le savent, et beaucoup choisissent de nous éviter le plus tôt possible."
👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/TXs
October 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Very happy to share our new paper published in Current Biology !

We show that the “big bad wolf” actually fears humans for good reason.
It’s the first-ever playback experiment on wild wolves in Europe 🇵🇱🌲.
Our new article shows: The 'big bad wolf' fears us. Would you have thought? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5E3QW8S...
Photo by Rafał Kowalczyk. @currentbiology.bsky.social
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October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM