Kate Grounds
@research_kate
Research Manager for the RZSS Living Links & Budongo Research Unit Consortium @ University of St Andrews/RZSS Edinburgh Zoo
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12-01-2017 16:22:31
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Welcome to the world Strom, Eilein, Druim + Vaara! Highland Wildlife Park visitors now have a good chance of seeing the adorable kittens as wildcat viewing areas re-open See bit.ly/31XmhFW for kitten news + read how we're working with partners to secure a future for wildcats🐾
A huge thank you on #InternationalZookeeperDay from our University of St Andrews research team to all the keepers we work with Edinburgh Zoo, for their expertise, friendship & dedication to our research activities. We couldn’t do it without them & our partnership with Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Thank you!
Midweek cute #floof alert! Little Masindi is getting hairier (and bolder!) everyday 🙈😍🙈😍🙈! See if you can spot her next time you visit @budongotrail Edinburgh Zoo #chimpanzees #CutenessOverload #skinnylegs
As well as being ambassadors for their wild counterparts, the chimps Edinburgh Zoo participate in voluntary studies with the Budongo Research Unit, led by University of St Andrews. The team supports researchers across Scotland. See the latest published paper ➡️bit.ly/BRUExhibitEnga…
How did the Edinburgh Zoo capuchins perform in comparison to children in this causal reasoning task by Living Links researcher Zeynep Civelek Zeynep Civelek? Read Zeynep's summary thread below to find out!
Little Coquito, one of our youngest brown capuchins Edinburgh Zoo, is certainly curious about the world around him and is exploring what he can from the safety of mum Agnes's back! You can spot him in the East enclosure RZSS Living Links with the other 20 members of his group🐒🐵
📢PhD Opportunity 📢"Evolution of cognition: the birds and bees" for a joint PhD with Sue Healy ( cognition wild/lab (@cogwild.bsky.social)) at St Andrews, Scotland and Andy Barron at Macquarie, Australia @CentreBioDiv School of Biology University of St Andrews Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Macquarie University Details: st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and…
‼️PhD position‼️ Interested in developing drone technology for wildlife conservation? Then check out this amazing PhD opportunity Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Group at WUR: wur.nl/nl/vacature/Ph…
🚨Our new study on the first vocalisations of a newborn wild chimpanzee is out in IntJPrimatology! The capacity to combine calls in sequences, including pant hoots, is present since birth, but these complex structures undergo developmental changes. OA:link.springer.com/article/10.100…