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Nicholas Wright

@nickwright98.bsky.social

UBC Zoology PhD Candidate l Gaynor Lab l Studying the ecological consequences of carnivore recovery in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

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Nicholas Wright@nickwright98.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share the first published Gaynor Lab undergraduate thesis! 🐆🔈🐒 This work was led by Sophie Van Cuylenborg, whom I’m very grateful to have helped mentor onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Context‐Dependent Reactive Antipredator Behavior of Chacma Baboons (<i>Papio ursinus griseipes</i>) Amidst Predator Recovery

Chacma baboons exhibited context-dependent flight and vigilance behavior in response to experimental predator vocalizations in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park. Reactions were strongest in juveni...

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Remington Moll@remingtonmoll.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New book on carnivores and humans! Exceptional group of authors: @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social @nickwright98.bsky.social @justineasmith.bsky.social, @conservresearch.bsky.social @adamtford.bsky.social, @maipoisson.bsky.social & others! academic.oup.com/book/63020

Apex Predators in the Anthropocene: How Humans Shape Large Carnivore Populations

Abstract. Humans and carnivores have shared landscapes for millennia, but never before have these interactions been more intense, complex, or consequential

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Jenny Green@jennygreen1121.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My 1st first-author paper is out now in Journal of Wildlife Management! 🎉 Using GPS collar data, we investigated how black bears 🐻respond to recreation and development in #YosemiteNationalPark 🧗‍♀️🥾🏕️🏠 Huge thanks to my #UBC and #NPS co-authors! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Using GPS collar data from black bears in Yosemite National Park, we examined how bear spatiotemporal activity in relation to human development shifted during the COVID-19 park closure in 2020. In th...

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Kaitlyn Gaynor@kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · last yr.

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?

The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....

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