Márcio Oliveira

Congratulations to Sir David Attenborough! 100th birthday! Thanks AI for the picture!

12th Annual Meeting of the Friendship Society for the Advancement of Science

What a team! Anhangá project. Measuring the impact of poaching on forest wildlife. @MarcusRowcliffe @GrottaNeto @AgenciaFAPESP @ImprensaUniara

LabCon team 🌿 recording gunshots in the field. The idea is to train an algorithm to detect these sounds in bioacoustic recorder data 🌳. Learn more at labconbr.org/projetos @ImprensaUniara @AgenciaFAPESP

Recorders deployed!

Now we are group!

5/ Does phylogeny predict ecology? 🤔 Surprisingly, we found only a weak correlation between phylogenetic distance (PD) and ecological difference (ED), meaning habitat use evolved flexibly.

4/ But which antler type came first? 🧐 Using ancestral state reconstruction, we found that spiked antlers are actually the ancestral trait, with branched antlers evolving later in some lineages.

3/ We tested whether spiked-antlered species are more associated with forest environments than their branched-antlered relatives. 🌳 Our results? Yes! Spiked-antlered species show a stronger link to dense forests.

🧵 Paper alert🦌🌿 Why do some Neotropical deer look so similar despite not being closely related? Our latest study in @BiolJLinnSoc explores the evolutionary forces shaping their morphology. ⬇️ @ImprensaUniara @AgenciaFAPESP @GrottaNeto 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/b…