New Paper: Energetic Limits
Shuert C., L. Halsey, P. Pomeroy, & S. Twiss (2020). Energetic limits: Defining the bounds and trade-offs of successful energy management in a capital breeder. Journal of Animal Ecology. Doi: […]
New Paper: Stress coping styles and reproductive outcomes.
Our team of now international collaborators* have just had a new paper published that provides exciting evidence of subtle, but important, differences in reproductive outcomes across grey seal mothers’ with […]
Paper in a Nutshell: Coping styles modulate behavioural trade-offs
[Open Access] Shuert, C.R., Pomeroy, P.P. & Twiss, S.D. (2020) Coping styles in capital breeders modulate behavioural trade-offs in time allocation: assessing fine-scale activity budgets in lactating grey seals (Halichoerus […]
Instruction manuals for scientists — 60° North Science
Myself and others recently published a paper outlining our Best Practice recommendations for the use of telemetry devices in seals. Check out a blog post that I wrote for our […]
Paper in a nutshell: Accelerometers, Machine Learning, and Behaviour
Shuert, C. R., Pomeroy, P. P., & Twiss, S. D. (2018). Assessing the utility and limitations of accelerometers and machine learning approaches in classifying behaviour during lactation in a phocid […]
Lights, Camera, Wolves, Action!! Part 2……
Lemmy, Elvis, Sting, Moby, PJ and KD were their names, the wolves of Wildwood! The rock stars who represented the potential ‘rewilding’ of the British Isles, since wolves were eradicated […]
Lights, Camera, Wolves, Action!! Part 1……
Once upon a time, in a University far, far away, a lone wolf biologist sat in her little research office writing about the social behaviour of the wolves she has […]
Maddie’s musings on pups
One of my favourite parts of being on the island has been watching the pups develop from the tiny, helpless newborns to the chubby, curious weaners. It is now coming […]
22nd Biennial Conference on Marine Mammalogy – Halifax, Nova Scotia, eh!
This is a bit delayed as I had to immediately rush out to join the rest of our intrepid field team whom you’ve heard from already – Alec, Nathan, and […]
Spot the difference
One of the hardest parts of fieldwork here is identifying individuals that have been studied in previous years. This is important to see whether the individual behaviour patterns we observe […]
Studying Seals 