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Luke Anderson
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Incoming postdoc at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. My PhD work at Tulane explored behavioral ecology and evolutionary genomics in manakins
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Excited to share that my first dissertation chapter has been published in Biology Letters!

"Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system"

Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A male white-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus) perches at a lek site in northwestern Ecuador (FCAT Reserve). Photo by Sam Case. The quantity of fruit resources around male display courts significantly predicted male display rates, which in turn predicted rates of female visitation (a proxy for mating success).
September 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Fieldwork on Christmas Day => red and green color bands 🎄🪶
Juvenile white-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus) with red and green color bands on its legs
December 25, 2023 at 10:58 PM
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Eyelash palm-pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii), Ecuadorian Chocó.
December 19, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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Awesome to witness this bushmaster surgery at Reserva FCAT! Bushmasters are the longest vipers in the world, and researchers here are implanting radio transmitters to track the snakes’ movements, with goals of understanding their basic biology and reducing human-wildlife conflict in NW Ecuador.
A ~1.8m anesthetized bushmaster is laid out on a table, while a veterinarian/biologist (Dale DeNardo) makes an incision in the skin to implant a radio transmitter. Surgical tools are spread across the table and the head is being contained in a tube by a second biologist (Maria Elena Barragan).
December 17, 2023 at 6:28 PM
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Finally made it over to Bsky! I suppose it’s only fitting to kick things off with a manakin pic..
White-bearded manakin in the hand
November 2, 2023 at 11:59 PM