
Tahlia Perry
@tahliajperry
PostDoc @UniofAdelaide & @cabahCoE • Creator of @echidna_csi • Wildlife research & conservation using #genomics & #citizenscience
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To keep cool in the scorching Australian bush, prickly short-beaked echidnas blow bubbles of snot onto their snouts. As the mucus evaporates, it cools the blood running through their beaks! My latest for News from Science: science.org/content/articl…

Echidnas have always been among my favorite critters so I had a blast working on this one. Thanks to Christine Cooper for telling me about her new study and to Tahlia Perry and Stewart Nicol for adding crucial context to the findings. As always, great to work with David Grimm!

Science Magazine summary of #echidna #thermoregulation #IR study Philip Withers Stewart Nicol EchidnaCSI Tahlia Perry science.org/content/articl…

❄️👃 #Echidnas blow snot bubbles to keep cool...wait, what? Read more & get involved in EchidnaCSI cosmosmagazine.com/australia/echi… Tahlia Perry Uni of Adelaide Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology #conservation #CitizenScience

Pretty excited to be asked to comment for a Science news article! Check out this very cool research by Christine Cooper on how echidnas survive extreme temperatures using snot bubbles Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology CABAH science.org/content/articl…


CABAH's #citizenscience expert Tahlia Perry from Uni of Adelaide says the knowledge that echidnas use snot bubbles to stay cool could help conservation efforts.

Amazing talk at the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology ecology and evolutionary biology department seminar by @ErinnFJ today! She presented a synopsis of the huge Insect Investigators project that she's led over the past two years 🐜🐝🪲🐞🦗 #science #research #CitizenScience


Live tonight, 7pm PT: We’re talking 💩. Tune into NightSchool with Drs. Sean Yap (sgbeetlenut), Tahlia Perry, & Dr. Alison Marklein to discuss everything from dung-beetle courtship & echidna excrement to dairy manure’s impact on climate change: bit.ly/3ZR5mAk


How much do you know about 💩?? Not so much NIGHT school for me with the time zone difference but catch me today at 1.30pm Adelaide time where I’ll be talking all things #echidna poo for California Academy of Sciences 👉Live stream or what later on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=XaFuX1…

Check out Tahlia Perry talking about #Echnidna's, EchidnaCSI, gut #microbiome and scat💩! ▶️Talk starts at 53:00 Uni of Adelaide Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology



Had a wonderful opportunity to meet with Deputy Premier Minister Close and CE of Zoos South Australia Elaine Bensted to launch the Environmental Citizen Science Small Grants Program: environment.sa.gov.au/topics/science… A great step towards SA government’s commitment of $2 million for #citizenscience 🎉


Amazing work from Tahlia Perry EchidnaCSI harnessing (glittering) #poo to understand #echidna #health (and provide better #diet to captive ones). #eDNA #ICG2023


Citizen scientists send in 800+ glittering echidna 💩 samples to Tahlia Perry for her PHD looking at diet, health and microbiome. Guess what, they eat more than termites! #ICG2023


To complete the environmental DNA session, Tahlia Perry on EchidnaCSI and the power of the public (and the power of 💩) to understand echidna populations, diets, and gut microbiomes. Did you know that echidnas don’t just eat ants and termites? They also eat plants! #ICG2023


Fantastic talk by Tahlia Perry on #eDNA analysis of echidna poo collected by #citizenscience - take home messages: echidnas are insectivorous herbivores and their poo sparkles ✨💩✨! #ICG2023