Applied Behavioural Ecology and Conservation

We had a great Society for Conservation Biology congress in Malaysia.

PhD student Teresa Santos presented her research as a poster on connectivity and population genetics of savanna elephants.

I gave talk at our Symposium on how animal behaviour and conservation matter f...

It's exciting to have this paper come out in PNAS. I was part of a team including Josh Plotnik, Lydia Tiller, Dan Brubaker, Rachel Dale and Nicky Clayton, investigating the ability of elephants to distinguish between quantities of food using olfaction alone. The elepha...

I'm really pleased our paper on extracting morphometric data, age and musth status from survey photographs is out today in Frontiers in Zoology. It's the first data paper of several from my research in South Africa with Elephants Alive!

PhD Studentship Available

I have a position available for a student wishing to pursue a PhD in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong on the ecology of elephants.

Elephants are large-bodied, long-lived and socially complex mammals. One of my res...

I wrote my own opinions about conservation's "white saviour" problem.

Check it out here.

I conclude:

"Conservation can’t be the preserve of people who can afford international travel and to take unpaid internships. We can make choices about communication, participation, t...

I'm pleased to announce that an article I wrote about elephant dung has been published in the Martlet. 

It is accompanied by a cartoon by Martin Rowson.

I'm pleased to announce we were awarded a grant from the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility in Sheffield. This will allow us to do exciting new sequencing work. We'll keep up updated with the progress!