Sandra Lai
@sandralai.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at WildCRU, University of Oxford
Ethiopian Wolf Monitoring Programme | Arctic | Carnivores | Behavioral Ecology | Movement Ecology | Conservation | Ecosystem monitoring 🦊🐺❄️
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra-Lai-2
Ethiopian Wolf Monitoring Programme | Arctic | Carnivores | Behavioral Ecology | Movement Ecology | Conservation | Ecosystem monitoring 🦊🐺❄️
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra-Lai-2
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Sandra Lai
Anders Angerbjörn and Paula White kicking off the first day with important talks about the potential impacts of climate change on the Arctic fox 🔥❄️
#ArcticFoxConference2025
#ArcticFoxConference2025
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Anders Angerbjörn and Paula White kicking off the first day with important talks about the potential impacts of climate change on the Arctic fox 🔥❄️
#ArcticFoxConference2025
#ArcticFoxConference2025
Reposted by Sandra Lai
Scientific American covered our #MovementEcology work on Arctic foxes a couple of years ago, beautifully illustrating their continental-scale dispersal across Arctic Canada, through islands and sea ice straits.🧪🌿🌎🦊🌐🦑🐻❄️ #wildlife. If interested, enlarge map below (with full reference to article).
June 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Scientific American covered our #MovementEcology work on Arctic foxes a couple of years ago, beautifully illustrating their continental-scale dispersal across Arctic Canada, through islands and sea ice straits.🧪🌿🌎🦊🌐🦑🐻❄️ #wildlife. If interested, enlarge map below (with full reference to article).
Reposted by Sandra Lai
Meet Postdoctoral Research Associate @sandralai.bsky.social! 🦊
As an ecologist and carnivore researcher, Sandra’s work investigates the behavioural adaptations of mammals in extreme environments, from Arctic foxes in the High Arctic to the endangered Ethiopian wolf.
[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk
As an ecologist and carnivore researcher, Sandra’s work investigates the behavioural adaptations of mammals in extreme environments, from Arctic foxes in the High Arctic to the endangered Ethiopian wolf.
[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Meet Postdoctoral Research Associate @sandralai.bsky.social! 🦊
As an ecologist and carnivore researcher, Sandra’s work investigates the behavioural adaptations of mammals in extreme environments, from Arctic foxes in the High Arctic to the endangered Ethiopian wolf.
[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk
As an ecologist and carnivore researcher, Sandra’s work investigates the behavioural adaptations of mammals in extreme environments, from Arctic foxes in the High Arctic to the endangered Ethiopian wolf.
[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk
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EWCP, in partnership with EWCA, is leading the first large-scale preventive vaccination of Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains. Combining vaccination and GPS collaring, we aim to protect the world’s rarest canid and the Afroalpine ecosystem they call home.
@biology.ox.ac.uk @sandralai.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk @sandralai.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
EWCP, in partnership with EWCA, is leading the first large-scale preventive vaccination of Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains. Combining vaccination and GPS collaring, we aim to protect the world’s rarest canid and the Afroalpine ecosystem they call home.
@biology.ox.ac.uk @sandralai.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk @sandralai.bsky.social
🔥 I am thrilled to have been chosen as a 2025 Flag Carrier by WINGS Women of Discovery!
With their support, I’ll join the team in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains to vaccinate and GPS-collar endangered Ethiopian wolves.
➡️ wingswomenofdiscovery.org/explorer/san...
@wildcru.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk
With their support, I’ll join the team in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains to vaccinate and GPS-collar endangered Ethiopian wolves.
➡️ wingswomenofdiscovery.org/explorer/san...
@wildcru.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🔥 I am thrilled to have been chosen as a 2025 Flag Carrier by WINGS Women of Discovery!
With their support, I’ll join the team in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains to vaccinate and GPS-collar endangered Ethiopian wolves.
➡️ wingswomenofdiscovery.org/explorer/san...
@wildcru.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk
With their support, I’ll join the team in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains to vaccinate and GPS-collar endangered Ethiopian wolves.
➡️ wingswomenofdiscovery.org/explorer/san...
@wildcru.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk
In 2020, a male Ethiopian wolf in the Simien Mountains sustained a severe leg injury caused by a gun shot. Unable to keep up with his pack, weak and bleeding, in a place as harsh and exposed as the Ethiopian highlands, that’s usually the end of the story.
But this time, it wasn’t.
But this time, it wasn’t.
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In 2020, a male Ethiopian wolf in the Simien Mountains sustained a severe leg injury caused by a gun shot. Unable to keep up with his pack, weak and bleeding, in a place as harsh and exposed as the Ethiopian highlands, that’s usually the end of the story.
But this time, it wasn’t.
But this time, it wasn’t.
🌍🐺 Wolves Across Borders 2025 — EWCP joined the Himalayan Wolves Project and WildCRU colleagues in Lunteren to represent wolves from Africa, Europe and Asia.
A powerful global gathering sharing field insights and coexistence strategies.
Thanks to all who came to listen and share!
A powerful global gathering sharing field insights and coexistence strategies.
Thanks to all who came to listen and share!
June 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🌍🐺 Wolves Across Borders 2025 — EWCP joined the Himalayan Wolves Project and WildCRU colleagues in Lunteren to represent wolves from Africa, Europe and Asia.
A powerful global gathering sharing field insights and coexistence strategies.
Thanks to all who came to listen and share!
A powerful global gathering sharing field insights and coexistence strategies.
Thanks to all who came to listen and share!
Reposted by Sandra Lai
Over the years, we've published multiple #MovementEcology papers using the Arctic fox as a model. But I’ve never shared this video of a flying Arctic fox!
Filmed on our Bylot Island study area by my former PhD student Clément Chevallier. #wildlife 🧪🌿🌎
Filmed on our Bylot Island study area by my former PhD student Clément Chevallier. #wildlife 🧪🌿🌎
April 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Over the years, we've published multiple #MovementEcology papers using the Arctic fox as a model. But I’ve never shared this video of a flying Arctic fox!
Filmed on our Bylot Island study area by my former PhD student Clément Chevallier. #wildlife 🧪🌿🌎
Filmed on our Bylot Island study area by my former PhD student Clément Chevallier. #wildlife 🧪🌿🌎
Reposted by Sandra Lai
The first publication of my postdoc on Scandinavian brown bears is now published in Ecology and Evolution! Go check it out!
We used accelerometry data to evaluate bears' behavioural adjustments in response to temporal variation in hunting risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We used accelerometry data to evaluate bears' behavioural adjustments in response to temporal variation in hunting risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Acceleration Data Reveal Behavioural Responses to Hunting Risk in Scandinavian Brown Bears
We used accelerometry data to evaluate behavioural adjustments to temporal variation in hunting risk in Scandinavian brown bears. We find that male bears become more nocturnal after the onset of the ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The first publication of my postdoc on Scandinavian brown bears is now published in Ecology and Evolution! Go check it out!
We used accelerometry data to evaluate bears' behavioural adjustments in response to temporal variation in hunting risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We used accelerometry data to evaluate bears' behavioural adjustments in response to temporal variation in hunting risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
EWCP delegates, Prof Claudio Sillero, Dr Jorgelina Marino and Dr Sandra Lai, just arrived in Lunteren, Netherlands, for the International Conference Wolves Across Borders 2025! 🧵1/
#WAB2025 #WildCRU #OxfordBiology #OxfordUniversity #WolvesBorders #conservation #research
#WAB2025 #WildCRU #OxfordBiology #OxfordUniversity #WolvesBorders #conservation #research
June 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
EWCP delegates, Prof Claudio Sillero, Dr Jorgelina Marino and Dr Sandra Lai, just arrived in Lunteren, Netherlands, for the International Conference Wolves Across Borders 2025! 🧵1/
#WAB2025 #WildCRU #OxfordBiology #OxfordUniversity #WolvesBorders #conservation #research
#WAB2025 #WildCRU #OxfordBiology #OxfordUniversity #WolvesBorders #conservation #research
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
💥 Flash news: I’ll be at WAB 2025!
Anyone else going? Let’s meet 🦊
Anyone else going? Let’s meet 🦊
The WAB conference 2025 is getting closer !🐺
Check out the conference booklet online: www.wolvesacrossborders.com/conference-b... 🌎
For sustainability and environmental reasons 🌿the conference booklet is available in a digital format only. So don't forget to download it!📗
#WolvesBorders
Check out the conference booklet online: www.wolvesacrossborders.com/conference-b... 🌎
For sustainability and environmental reasons 🌿the conference booklet is available in a digital format only. So don't forget to download it!📗
#WolvesBorders
Conference Booklet | Wolves Across Border
www.wolvesacrossborders.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
💥 Flash news: I’ll be at WAB 2025!
Anyone else going? Let’s meet 🦊
Anyone else going? Let’s meet 🦊
Reposted by Sandra Lai
Action on the sea ice: An Arctic wolf chases away a polar bear while other pack members rest nearby on the sea ice. While not a rare event, it's also not a common one at our CFS Alert biodiversity study area, Nunavut, Canada. Picture by Richard Cayer, 20 September 2020. 🌿🌎🦑 #addMam #wildlife
May 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by Sandra Lai
This female Arctic hare nursing her six leverets is perfect for Easter, especially with music added! Filmed by my former postdoc @sandralai.bsky.social at our biodiversity monitoring site CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. Music: Cumbia Deli.🌿🌎 #wildlife
April 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This female Arctic hare nursing her six leverets is perfect for Easter, especially with music added! Filmed by my former postdoc @sandralai.bsky.social at our biodiversity monitoring site CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. Music: Cumbia Deli.🌿🌎 #wildlife
“The three animals produced by Colossal are not dire wolves. Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf based on IUCN SSC guiding principles of extinct species for conservation benefit”—IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group
Read the full statement below ⬇️
Read the full statement below ⬇️
April 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“The three animals produced by Colossal are not dire wolves. Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf based on IUCN SSC guiding principles of extinct species for conservation benefit”—IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group
Read the full statement below ⬇️
Read the full statement below ⬇️
Hi, canid scientist here! 🙋🏻♀️
All I’m gonna say is that Colossal is claiming "if they look like this animal, then they are the animal" when the animal in question was more likely to be brownish-red and not white… Kinda like another extant wolf species 👀
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
All I’m gonna say is that Colossal is claiming "if they look like this animal, then they are the animal" when the animal in question was more likely to be brownish-red and not white… Kinda like another extant wolf species 👀
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Hi, canid scientist here! 🙋🏻♀️
All I’m gonna say is that Colossal is claiming "if they look like this animal, then they are the animal" when the animal in question was more likely to be brownish-red and not white… Kinda like another extant wolf species 👀
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
All I’m gonna say is that Colossal is claiming "if they look like this animal, then they are the animal" when the animal in question was more likely to be brownish-red and not white… Kinda like another extant wolf species 👀
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
When I look back at what we put our field cars through during the last field trip, I don’t even know how we made it successfully to the end… a miracle!
All field cars know suffering… that’s universal fieldwork experience!
What’s your worst field car story?
🎥 Abdi Samune
All field cars know suffering… that’s universal fieldwork experience!
What’s your worst field car story?
🎥 Abdi Samune
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When I look back at what we put our field cars through during the last field trip, I don’t even know how we made it successfully to the end… a miracle!
All field cars know suffering… that’s universal fieldwork experience!
What’s your worst field car story?
🎥 Abdi Samune
All field cars know suffering… that’s universal fieldwork experience!
What’s your worst field car story?
🎥 Abdi Samune
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Register now for our annual meeting! Join us at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of September. This year's theme is Understanding Migration, but contributions in all areas of movement ecology are welcome.
Abstract deadline: 30th June
🧪🌍
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...
Abstract deadline: 30th June
🧪🌍
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...
#BESMove2025 -- Movement Ecology Annual Meeting
Our popular Movement Ecology Annual Meeting will move to the University of East Anglia this year, under the title Understanding Migration.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Register now for our annual meeting! Join us at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of September. This year's theme is Understanding Migration, but contributions in all areas of movement ecology are welcome.
Abstract deadline: 30th June
🧪🌍
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...
Abstract deadline: 30th June
🧪🌍
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...
🚨New on the blog🚨
Can you guess how many Ethiopian wolves we captured?🦊
14 people, 10 days, 4 camps, 3 cars
Read more about my most insane (but meaningful) fieldwork ever!
➡️ ethiopianwolf.org/news/notes-f...
#EWCP
#WildCRU @wildcru.bsky.social
#Oxfordbiology @biology.ox.ac.uk
Can you guess how many Ethiopian wolves we captured?🦊
14 people, 10 days, 4 camps, 3 cars
Read more about my most insane (but meaningful) fieldwork ever!
➡️ ethiopianwolf.org/news/notes-f...
#EWCP
#WildCRU @wildcru.bsky.social
#Oxfordbiology @biology.ox.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🚨New on the blog🚨
Can you guess how many Ethiopian wolves we captured?🦊
14 people, 10 days, 4 camps, 3 cars
Read more about my most insane (but meaningful) fieldwork ever!
➡️ ethiopianwolf.org/news/notes-f...
#EWCP
#WildCRU @wildcru.bsky.social
#Oxfordbiology @biology.ox.ac.uk
Can you guess how many Ethiopian wolves we captured?🦊
14 people, 10 days, 4 camps, 3 cars
Read more about my most insane (but meaningful) fieldwork ever!
➡️ ethiopianwolf.org/news/notes-f...
#EWCP
#WildCRU @wildcru.bsky.social
#Oxfordbiology @biology.ox.ac.uk
Reposted by Sandra Lai
🚨New on the blog🚨
Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest
Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve
➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC
@wildcru.bsky.social
Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest
Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve
➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC
@wildcru.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🚨New on the blog🚨
Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest
Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve
➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC
@wildcru.bsky.social
Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest
Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve
➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC
@wildcru.bsky.social
🦊 Fieldwork essentials🦊
Go ahead, judge me on anything!
I’ll be posting about fieldwork with Ethiopian wolves soon!
Stay tuned! ✨
Go ahead, judge me on anything!
I’ll be posting about fieldwork with Ethiopian wolves soon!
Stay tuned! ✨
February 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🦊 Fieldwork essentials🦊
Go ahead, judge me on anything!
I’ll be posting about fieldwork with Ethiopian wolves soon!
Stay tuned! ✨
Go ahead, judge me on anything!
I’ll be posting about fieldwork with Ethiopian wolves soon!
Stay tuned! ✨
Reposted by Sandra Lai
❄️7th International Arctic Fox Conference❄️
When: September 26-29, 2025
Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Please fill this form: forms.gle/kPhgGfJMC2XV...
The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, May 1, 2025.
When: September 26-29, 2025
Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Please fill this form: forms.gle/kPhgGfJMC2XV...
The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, May 1, 2025.
February 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
❄️7th International Arctic Fox Conference❄️
When: September 26-29, 2025
Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Please fill this form: forms.gle/kPhgGfJMC2XV...
The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, May 1, 2025.
When: September 26-29, 2025
Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Please fill this form: forms.gle/kPhgGfJMC2XV...
The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, May 1, 2025.
Reposted by Sandra Lai
❄️Join us in Churchill, Manitoba for the 7th International Arctic Fox Conference, September 26–29, 2025!❄️
📢 RSVP now: forms.gle/Y6VR6TT1UJXh...
🔗 Info: churchillscience.ca/internationa...
📧 Questions: 2025arcticfox@gmail.com
#ArcticFox #Churchill #ArcticEcology #2025ArcticFoxConference
📢 RSVP now: forms.gle/Y6VR6TT1UJXh...
🔗 Info: churchillscience.ca/internationa...
📧 Questions: 2025arcticfox@gmail.com
#ArcticFox #Churchill #ArcticEcology #2025ArcticFoxConference
February 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
❄️Join us in Churchill, Manitoba for the 7th International Arctic Fox Conference, September 26–29, 2025!❄️
📢 RSVP now: forms.gle/Y6VR6TT1UJXh...
🔗 Info: churchillscience.ca/internationa...
📧 Questions: 2025arcticfox@gmail.com
#ArcticFox #Churchill #ArcticEcology #2025ArcticFoxConference
📢 RSVP now: forms.gle/Y6VR6TT1UJXh...
🔗 Info: churchillscience.ca/internationa...
📧 Questions: 2025arcticfox@gmail.com
#ArcticFox #Churchill #ArcticEcology #2025ArcticFoxConference