Sampling fish in Amazon oxbow lakes: A way to understand giant otter habitat quality
Giant otters are large, active, aquatic carnivores that spend hours foraging and socializing every day. Their diet is almost exclusively...
First giant otter field trip of the year, including several guests and fish sampling, completed
The Peru Giant Otter Conservation Project has recently returned from a long field trip, in which several oxbow lakes have been surveyed...
Supporting local ecotourism initiatives to advance Amazon lake conservation efforts
The Peru giant otter project has established a collaboration with the indigenous community of Isla de los Valles, which is strategically...
Looking for giant otters in mined areas of the Peruvian Amazon
It is early morning and the sun is rising over the lower Madre de Dios river. My Peruvian field assistants, Panchito and Juan, and I,...
Pictures from our recent trip to Australia
After attending a large mammal conference in Perth, we visited several Australian natural areas in the Northern Territory and Queensland....
First impressions for our giant otter trip
Over a week ago, we made our way by boat in the upper Madre de Dios river from Salvacion to Manu National Park (Peru). This was the start...
Alaska river otter story in KBBI radio
Our work on river otter sociality was featured in a short podcast by Shahla Farzan in Alaska's KBBI radio, where I am also interviewed....
Amazon giant otters will be the subject of my next postdoc research
I have recently accepted my dream job - a postdoc position with the San Diego Zoo Conservation Institute and the WildCru unit at Oxford...
Alaska river otters featured in The New York Times
The Animal Behavior paper I have recently co-authored, titled "Coastal latrines as social information hubs and drivers of river otter...
Awesome trip to China and Mongolia
I went traveling in central Asia last September. I got to experience the huge densities of Beijing and on an opposite note the vast...
