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3 raccoons in a field truck
PhD candidate @
UBC Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab 🦝
Cognitive ecology, urban ecology,
raccoon cognition + behavior

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Oriol Lapiedra

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Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change

We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇

📸G. Casbas

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July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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Sofia Forss

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🚨 In our new Preprint we studied how anthropogenic foraging experience relate to behavioral flexibility and innovativness in urban vervet monkeys 🐒
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Behavioural flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys

Phylogenetic comparisons suggest that behavioural flexibility facilitates success in urban environments. It remains less clear whether urbanization fosters cognitive skills that require flexibility, o...

www.biorxiv.org

June 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Alan McElligott

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2025. Unique outdoor camera system offers a window into the secret lives of wild birds phys.org/news/2025-06...

Unique outdoor camera system offers a window into the secret lives of wild birds

Capturing the behavior of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? Researchers from the Konstanz-based Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behavior" developed a unique outdoor camera system to...

phys.org

June 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦

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#UBCForestry Associate Professor Sarah Benson-Amram shares that by monitoring and understanding coyote behaviour, “we want to improve outcomes for people, their pets and for coyotes,”👥

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Remember all those Stanley Park coyote attacks? Blame the pandemic, says researcher

UBC research reveals a correlation between pandemic restrictions and unprecedented coyote attacks in Stanley Park in 2020-21. Read more.

vancouversun.com

June 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM

Raccoon Biologist 🇨🇦🦝🇺🇸

@hannahgriebs.bsky.social

Ranger Rick definitely inspired my love and appreciation for raccoons as a kid! And other wildlife too I guess.

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Jun 6

RANGER RICK came to my talk at the @nationalwildlife.bsky.social meeting this week!!!!!!!!!🥹

*NWF publishes Ranger Rick (children’s nature magazine), and that’s how I first learned about gars!) blog.nature.org/science/2020...

A fish scientist stands next to Ranger Rick, the raccoon mascot of the nature magazine that inspired him as a kid and introduced him to the fish (gar) that he’d make his career studying and trying to conserve (as a broader effort for freshwater conservation). They are holding up an Alligator Gar head, and the scientist still can’t believe this happened!!!

A fish scientist gets a hug from Ranger Rick, the raccoon mascot of the nature magazine that inspired him as a kid and influenced his entire career. The scientist is still processing this moment.

June 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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UBC Science

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“The goal ultimately is to coexist,” said Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram, head of UBC’s urban wildlife project. @zoology.ubc.ca @forestry.ubc.ca

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