George Hodgson
@ghodgson.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at City University of Hong Kong, studying sociality and animal behaviour... Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄
Back in Hong Kong after attending #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata and very glad we got to see some of the city's wildlife before our return - some lovely langurs and striped palm squirrels!
September 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Back in Hong Kong after attending #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata and very glad we got to see some of the city's wildlife before our return - some lovely langurs and striped palm squirrels!
Interesting seminars, discussions and plenaries at #Behaviour2025 so far! Looking forward to the second half of the conference 👀🐮🐝
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Interesting seminars, discussions and plenaries at #Behaviour2025 so far! Looking forward to the second half of the conference 👀🐮🐝
Understanding how ungulates maintain #socialbonds is important for #positiveanimalwelfare and highlights the complex social lives and cognitive abilities of cattle. To learn more about the study, visit royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... or our website hkcattleresearch.org 🐂
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Understanding how ungulates maintain #socialbonds is important for #positiveanimalwelfare and highlights the complex social lives and cognitive abilities of cattle. To learn more about the study, visit royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... or our website hkcattleresearch.org 🐂
This indicates that cattle pay attention to their social surroundings, and selectively interrupt bonding behaviour. These nuanced social relationships and third-party effects are often only associated with non-human primates, and not usually with livestock such as cattle.
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This indicates that cattle pay attention to their social surroundings, and selectively interrupt bonding behaviour. These nuanced social relationships and third-party effects are often only associated with non-human primates, and not usually with livestock such as cattle.
We found that feral cattle were more likely to intervene in allogrooming interactions if they had a strong social bond with one animal but not the other, dominant animals were more likely to be successful interveners, and that allogrooming duration increased when more cattle were nearby.
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We found that feral cattle were more likely to intervene in allogrooming interactions if they had a strong social bond with one animal but not the other, dominant animals were more likely to be successful interveners, and that allogrooming duration increased when more cattle were nearby.
Animals may seek to protect their existing social relationships by stopping preferred partners from forming bonds with others. In #HongKong feral cattle, we examined if bystanders (surrounding #cattle) purposefully interrupted ongoing grooming behaviour and if #bystanders affected grooming duration
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Animals may seek to protect their existing social relationships by stopping preferred partners from forming bonds with others. In #HongKong feral cattle, we examined if bystanders (surrounding #cattle) purposefully interrupted ongoing grooming behaviour and if #bystanders affected grooming duration
Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social
A little fieldwork adventure to Lantau today to see some buffalo wallowing ☀️🐃🌱
June 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
A little fieldwork adventure to Lantau today to see some buffalo wallowing ☀️🐃🌱
For more information about the Hong Kong feral cattle and our (Prof Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social, Tania Perroux, Prof Kate Flay) ongoing research, find the project online at hkcattleresearch.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
For more information about the Hong Kong feral cattle and our (Prof Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social, Tania Perroux, Prof Kate Flay) ongoing research, find the project online at hkcattleresearch.org
Higher-ranking animals performed more affiliation and had more affiliative partners, with males directing affiliation preferentially towards females. Dominance, sex, group size and supplementary provisioning all affected aggression, with provisioned animals receiving more aggression.
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May 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Higher-ranking animals performed more affiliation and had more affiliative partners, with males directing affiliation preferentially towards females. Dominance, sex, group size and supplementary provisioning all affected aggression, with provisioned animals receiving more aggression.
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We found that feral cattle herds varied in their social network modularity and clustering, but that all groups had stable and steep hierarchies with unidirectional dominance interactions (meaning that lower-ranking animals rarely displaced higher-ranking animals).
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May 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
We found that feral cattle herds varied in their social network modularity and clustering, but that all groups had stable and steep hierarchies with unidirectional dominance interactions (meaning that lower-ranking animals rarely displaced higher-ranking animals).
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We investigated how affiliation and aggression were affected by sociodemographic and anthropogenic factors in five groups of free-ranging feral cattle in Hong Kong. Herds were mixed-sex, with variation in group size (9 to 63 animals per group) and supplementary provisioning status.
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May 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
We investigated how affiliation and aggression were affected by sociodemographic and anthropogenic factors in five groups of free-ranging feral cattle in Hong Kong. Herds were mixed-sex, with variation in group size (9 to 63 animals per group) and supplementary provisioning status.
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Our new feral cattle behaviour paper “Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour” is now available open access online at #AnimalBehaviourJournal @asab.org
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May 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Our new feral cattle behaviour paper “Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour” is now available open access online at #AnimalBehaviourJournal @asab.org
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Find out more about our [Tania Perroux, Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social & Kate Flay] ongoing research on the unique feral cattle of Hong Kong on our website hkcattleresearch.org
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May 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Find out more about our [Tania Perroux, Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social & Kate Flay] ongoing research on the unique feral cattle of Hong Kong on our website hkcattleresearch.org
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Sex and body condition had limited impact on endoparasite infection and mostly impacted nematode infections. Provisioning and herd size were important risk factors, showing contrasting impacts on endoparasite infections at genus level. 3/4
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Sex and body condition had limited impact on endoparasite infection and mostly impacted nematode infections. Provisioning and herd size were important risk factors, showing contrasting impacts on endoparasite infections at genus level. 3/4
We conducted sedimentation, McMaster and coproculture techniques on 262 samples collected from 177 cattle. We identified 11 taxa of nematodes, 2 taxa of trematodes, 1 taxon of protozoan and 1 taxon of cestode. We identified taxon-specific risk factors and seasonal patterns of infection 2/4
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We conducted sedimentation, McMaster and coproculture techniques on 262 samples collected from 177 cattle. We identified 11 taxa of nematodes, 2 taxa of trematodes, 1 taxon of protozoan and 1 taxon of cestode. We identified taxon-specific risk factors and seasonal patterns of infection 2/4
Our paper "Epidemiology and risk factors for endoparasite infection in subtropical feral cattle in Hong Kong", first author Tania Perroux, is now available in open access at the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
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May 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our paper "Epidemiology and risk factors for endoparasite infection in subtropical feral cattle in Hong Kong", first author Tania Perroux, is now available in open access at the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
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Hello Liverpool! Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our research on the feral cattle at poster session 1 at #BES2024 tomorrow night - come say hi! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Hello Liverpool! Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our research on the feral cattle at poster session 1 at #BES2024 tomorrow night - come say hi! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our latest feral cattle projects on subtropical heat effects and behavioural synchrony December 2nd, 14:00 (Hong Kong Time). More information and registration by QR code in the poster attached ☀️🐄🍃
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our latest feral cattle projects on subtropical heat effects and behavioural synchrony December 2nd, 14:00 (Hong Kong Time). More information and registration by QR code in the poster attached ☀️🐄🍃
New invasive species found in Hong Kong, be careful around Pacific Place everyone 🙏
November 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM
New invasive species found in Hong Kong, be careful around Pacific Place everyone 🙏
Typhoon on the way in Hong Kong, these guys are probably halfway up a mountain right now ☀️😊🌧
November 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Typhoon on the way in Hong Kong, these guys are probably halfway up a mountain right now ☀️😊🌧
Great to meet so many people yesterday during the poster presentation @ISBE2024 🥳 If you're interested in feral cattle behaviour and see me around, please say hi - looks like a busy week ahead! 🐮
September 30, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Great to meet so many people yesterday during the poster presentation @ISBE2024 🥳 If you're interested in feral cattle behaviour and see me around, please say hi - looks like a busy week ahead! 🐮
