@rachelliephant.bsky.social
🌍 PhD Elephant Cognition, Personality & Conflict 🧠 Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology 🐘 University of Portsmouth / Elephants for Africa 🎓 1+3 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership 🐭 MRes Neuroscience / MSc Research Methods
@uop-ccep.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelliephant.bsky.social✨Meet the team!!✨ @rachelliephant.bsky.social is a PhD student researching #elephant behaviour in Botswana. By exploring #curiosity using focal sampling, and #cognition using puzzle-boxes, she aims to explore the behaviours characteristic of elephants that enter human areas, to aid coexistence 🐘🌍🧠
@vestaeleuteri.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelliephant.bsky.social8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️.
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@aer-ese-bes.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelliephant.bsky.social💡 Can we count elephants from space?
🐘 Wilks et al. share their experience investigating the potential use of satellite surveys to identify elephants in the heterogeneous terrain of Botswana, Africa.
👇 Read here!
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@rachelliephant.bsky.socialThankful to be awarded a Parkes Foundation Small #Grant to help me with the #research costs of conducting my #PhD #fieldwork in the beautiful Makgadikgadi-Nxai Pans National Park!! 🩵🇧🇼 grateful for my tent life here with Elephants for Africa 🏕️🤩🐘
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