David Christopher Hopkinson
@D_C_Hopkinson
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Naturalist | University lecturer (@capelmanor) | Zookeeper | Science communicator | Wildlife photographer
Joined January 2021
This really was a fun day, and it was great to see my students’ work in action at a zoo. I look forward to doing this again with the next cohort! @capelmanor @RoyalAgUni @HertsZoo
#AnimalScience #AnimalManagement #Zoology #ZooScience #EnvironmentalEnrichment
Our Lecturer David Hopkinson recently took first-year HE Animal Management and Zoology students to @HertsZoo. They brought along papier-mâché enrichment devices they had designed, which keepers filled with food for their gibbons!
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RT @ptarroso: Ecological Niche Modeling Tutorial with R 🌍 Covers the basics with presence data cleaning, raster processing, variable selec…
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RT @capelmanor: Last week, we had the amazing opportunity to celebrate our animal management higher education students! There's still time…
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RT @SteveBrusatte: Why did mammals and birds both evolve huge brains? Mathias Osvath, Pavel Nemec @WitmerLab & me propose a new theory, cen…
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Wonderful news! Great to have more study subjects for our #Beaver project at @capelmanor in which we are assessing the effects of this specific family on the area as #EcosystemEngineers. I’m excited to see what insights we uncover. Watch this space! 🦫 #Conservation #Ecology
Four new baby kits have been spotted at Enfield Council and Capel Manor College’s beaver enclosure bringing the Enfield family to a total of seven healthy beavers! Find out more: | @EnfieldCouncil @BeaverTrust #EnfieldBeavers
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It was great to don the cap and gown once again as I graduated from @AngliaRuskin (@ARU_AHESS) with my PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education this week. I even got a video clip! Now it all feels official, and I’m proud to be an alumnus of this fantastic university.
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RT @TomJameson_Zoo: Excited to announce the publication of my PhD fieldwork. Studying the role of reptiles as scavengers and the implicatio…
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Very pleased to share that I am now a qualified university lecturer. PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education! Thank you to the staff of @ARU_AHESS @AngliaRuskin for making the course so interesting. Would recommend to anyone! #ARU #ARUProud #PGCert #HigherEducation
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RT @SteveBrusatte: Birds! Progress is happening! One year to get it finished and off to @PeterHubbardHC @MarinerBooks...
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RT @NHMdinolab: My latest book - A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils - is at the printers & due out this autumn with a US edition from @NM…
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Great to attend the Research Presentation Day 2024 at @ColchesterZoo this week. Excellent talks from students representing various universities! Of course, whilst there I visited my old rhino study subjects as well! 🦏 @capelmanor @RoyalAgUni
#ZooScience #ConservationBiology
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RT @stevoallain: Just back home from a great day at Colchester Zoo celebrating the amazing research projects completed by @ARUWrittle and @…
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Great to be attending the @EuropeTurtle conference at @ARUWrittle. Some very interesting talks delivered, and wonderful to be back at Writtle catching up with old colleagues. @AmoryJonathan @wildveitch @stevoallain
#Tortoise #Turtle #Conservation #AnimalWelfare
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Now it’s my tenrec Mira’s turn on the grass! 🦔 She does a good demonstration of the flehmen response in that first video; I’ll probably use that in one of my lectures if I teach anatomy and physiology again next year. #Tenrec #AnimalScience #Zoology #FlehmenResponse
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Lovely day for this one to be slithering around the garden. 🐍 I always like to let Mally on the grass when the weather is like this! ☀️
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What a week… Final PGCHE assignment submitted. 📝 Bulk of my marking finished. ✅ And I passed an observation of one of my lectures, with my teaching style meeting expectations! 😁 Now time to relax…
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RT @capelmanor: Did you know the Barrio’s frog, along with the northern and southern Darwin’s frogs are the only known living members of th…
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This is really sad news. Otto made an excellent contribution to @ColchesterZoo’s successful rhino breeding programme and was a good study subject to observe in my research. He had a lovely personality, was a wonderful father to those calves, and leaves a great legacy.
We are saddened to announce that our male White Rhino, Otto, passed away on 22nd March 2024. Our Animal Care Team are currently processing the loss of their beloved friend and would like to thank everyone for their support. Read more:
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