Dr Gabi Leighton
@GabiLeighton
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Postdoc @BioSciUCT @iCWild studying #urbanecology of @urbancaracal in Cape Town, South Africa | cat lover | tea addict | whimsical
Cape Town
Joined July 2012
RT @TC_Africa: Social media is an effective way to raise conservation awareness about wildlife living on the urban edges.
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RT @TC_Africa: Social media is an effective way to raise conservation awareness about wildlife living on the urban edges.
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Feature of our new article in @tandfonline Environmental Communication 😺 P.S. that’s not a caracal 😹
We all know the internet loves cats but can that adoration help with conservation? 🐈 This paper by @GabiLeighton seems to suggest so! #Caracal #Conservation #CatsOfTwitter
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RT @imidibaniso_sc: [NEW PUBLICATION] @GabiLeighton & @LaurelSerieys examine how leveraging social media has sparked fascination with the c…
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Excited to see this out! This paper started off as a presentation at the @imidibaniso_sc Eco-Communications Symposium in 2022 and it’s been a long journey to its final form… Thank you to special issue editors Mehita Iqani and Meghan Judge 👏
✨New paper ✨ leveraging the internet's obsession with cat videos to drive Open Science 😺 Open Access article:
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RT @imidibaniso_sc: We are so happy to see @GabiLeighton's insightful work on social media uses in communicating conserving urban wildlife…
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RT @wildlifesociety: AROUND THE WEB: Much of the public scrolls through Facebook and Instagram every day. Recent research suggests that scr…
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RT @tandfnewsroom: Social media can help aid wildlife conservation efforts through public awareness and engagement, finds new study @GabiL…
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Great AfriMove workshop post-@SAWMA_wildlife symposium. Thanks to @chamaillejammes and @SaraGomez1326 for a great discussion around home range estimation!
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@SAWMA_wildlife presentation done and dusted! 👏 Talking about koala spatial ecology in the face of disease, a collaboration with Australian researchers as part of the @AWMSociety Joan Southgate Travel Award 🇦🇺🔁🇿🇦
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RT @arjundevamar: We have a new paper out this week that further advances our method of using web-sourced photos to examine #raptor #diet.…
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RT @urbancaracal: NEW 📢 Cape Town caracals have elevated levels of inbreeding and "if migration rates decline or anthropogenic mortality ra…
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Our OA @SciTotEnv article uses #StableIsotopeAnalysis to show that marine prey are an important dietary resource for coastal foraging #caracals, expanding their dietary niche and catalysing cross-boundary flows of nutrients.
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📣 New OA article in Nature Scientific Reports! 📣 Excited to share our latest paper exploring broad-scale trophic ecology of #caracals with increasing human pressure using #StableIsotopeAnalysis 🐱🏙️ @urbancaracal @LaurelSerieys @BioSciUCT @Rhodes_Uni
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RT @mailandguardian: #GreeningTheFuture: Congratulations to the first set of winners in the Biodiversity Stewardship category. Gabriella L…
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@Femke_Broekhuis @urbancaracal @ICCB2023 Ah that’s a pity! Sorry I missed yours too. Let’s try meet up today or tomorrow 😺
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