Dinner and movie night at camp with our friends. Hilarious watching #TheSheepDetectives with our local friends who actually have sheep.
Christopher Dutton
@cldutton.bsky.social
Asst Professor in Biology at the University of Florida. Yale EEB PhD. Ecology and Conservation. Ecosystems, animals, microbes, etc... https://ufduttonlab.github.io/
Sorry girls, now is not a good time to swing...let's go sit by the fire.
Summer camp for our daughters at our research camp in Kenya... washing clothes by hand is a big part of the experience. 💪
Wondering... if the dwarf mongooses are trying to tell me that there is a 🐍 outside the tent?
A little excitement this afternoon when a hippo came out of nowhere, between myself and my kids, as I was fixing our remote telemetry system.
Couldn't clear the overhang without a little extra weight! 💪😂
Sometimes...it just takes a little longer to get where you are going ...
This is why we hire Maasai to help. They can spot the hippo moving in the bush much further than we can see.
Summer camp for the kids... helping collect gas flux measurements in the bush of Kenya. 🙏👍
Turns out...our Kenyan nanny is an excellent hair dresser as well.
Well, that didn't take long, to break the soil corer. 💪
Siafu ants always move when it rains...gotta be careful walking around camp...
Zebra crossing upstream, one was taken...and these big boys started moving upstream.
The rain is coming...and the wildebeest will follow....
Within five minutes of the giraffe pooping, the dung beetles were already working thru it...
I'm a Dutton. The other half of my family is Franklin, as in Ben. @paramountpictures.bsky.social drops three hit shows about my "dynasty" and suddenly Google emails me every 20 minutes about suspicious logins. Friends, I run a microbiome lab. There is no ranch. I promise. If there was, I'd invite u
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Multi‐Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests: A Mammal Interactions Hub in a Single Tree Species
We documented arboreal, multi-species mammal latrines in montane cloud forests of Costa Rica by surveying 169 trees across 29 species. Latrines were found exclusively on Ficus tuerckheimii, with 11 o....
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Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now.
Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵
