Susan Cunningham
@kiwi_sjc
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Senior Lecturer, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town. Behavioural Ecology, Sensory Ecology, Climate Change
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined September 2015
RT @arjundevamar: 📈📈NEW PAPER ALERT 🏚️🏬🏢🏦🏨🏪 Staying cool and eating junk: Influence of heat dissipation and anthropogenic food on foraging…
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RT @manda_babbler: Our latest paper now published in latest issue of @IBIS_journal. Check this out for more #SouthernPiedBabbler and #Clima…
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RT @Fitztitute: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity at the Uni of Pretoria The role of thermal refugia provided by vegetation for bufferin…
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RT @Fitztitute: Applications for a place on UCT's world-renowned taught Conservation Biology MSc course close August 31st. More details h…
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Proud of you @manda_babbler !
Time for a thread! PhD is done, the papers are out and I'll list my thesis, all the published chapters and the spin-off projects here. My thesis, Can sociality buffer the impacts of climate change on a cooperatively-breeding bird, is available here:
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RT @nbpattinson: My talk at #lab2021 is at 10h30 27 May directly after my other esteemed supervisor, Prof. McKechnie. I'm covering my PhD r…
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Long-term studies let us really untangle the mechanistic effects of climate change on organisms & make strong, well-founded predictions. Case study: Congrats @mandy_ridley & the #PiedBabbler team @Fitztitute #ornithology #ClimateChange (pic:@nbpattinson)
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UCT's red-winged starling population fled the #CapeTownFire on Sunday. As the smoke clears they'll make their way back to burned roost sites. Let us know if you see colour-ringed starlings in Cape Town meantime: uctstarlingproject@gmail.com @Fitztitute #urbanbirds #ornithology
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RT @CallanAfrica: A wildfire has caused tragic damage to the University of Cape Town over the last few hours but currently the FitzPatrick…
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RT @manda_babbler: Thrilled to share that I was awarded the @BioSciUCT Purcell Memorial Prize for best #Zoology MSc or PhD dissertation in…
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RT @KLF_UniVienna: New paper in Urban Bird special issue @ostrichJAO by @PeSumas @kiwi_sjc & T Risi showing higher body mass in RW starling…
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@manda_babbler was a pleasure and a privilege working with such an awesome student who brought so much to our team!
@ElliotMiles8 Definitely! Great advisory team @kiwi_sjc and @mandy_ridley, lab full of lovely people all interested in the same birds and #ClimateChange stuff as me, got to spend 4yrs at the awesome @fitztitute, best study species ever, fieldwork in the Kalahari. Learned! Pic by @nbpattinson
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RT @MattJNoakes1: Songbirds appear more vulnerable to #heatwaves. Temperatures as high as 45°C resulted in a mortality event of birds and b…
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Incredible #pollination biology story from the #fynbos: near extinct orchid masquerading as a sexy longhorn beetle tricks males into mating with the flower! The plant gets to breed but the beetle does not...
Near-extinct #orchid sexually exploits male #beetles — a world first from Africa. Beetles attracted by newly-described chemical even ejaculate into a "false cloaca" on the orchid's lip. #pollination #sexualdeception #fynbos
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RT @BenGFreeman1: A+ metaphor -- "the landscape of heat" species can use behavior to respond to warming temps, but this will change how…
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RT @ro_martin: Behaviour doesn't just 'buffer' climate change impacts but has important opportunity costs. Our new paper in @ESAFrontiers e…
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The 'landscape of heat' is analogous to the 'landscape of fear': changing behaviour to avoid the heat carries opportunity costs with implications for fitness, population persistence and ecosystem function. New paper: #ClimateChange @Fitztitute @ro_martin
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RT @AndreaFuller06: New paper from @kiwi_sjc and team on opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming: https:…
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