Badgers accumulate leaves in their den so that they can rest on a comfortable insulated mattress of leaves - checkout this camera trap video (2 separate merged videos) from the Karst of Trieste - done as part of a field class I teach

Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality-driven tradeoffs in habitat use. Our latest paper led by Maisie Merz is now out in Oikos, looking at how perceived predation risk affects small mammals habitat use, and how this varies among individuals
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"Over the limit: Consequences of gray squirrel personality on the shifting range limits of oak and hickory species" led by Maisie Merz is now out (open access) in Global Ecology and Conservation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very hesitant jackal sniffing the lure in the Karst of Trieste #cameratraps #mammalmonitoring