Early in the semester I told myself this about teaching a #wildlife pops course: "I'll be damned if I come out of this without talking about tribbles."
The time has come.
Because it's fun, and because it can work, I'm making a population growth lab around #StarTrek#tribbles
Update: me as the math works out
Tried to work out how to add in a tribble predator, the glommer, but we don’t know much about the biology of glommers 😂
(Bc realism is what matters here)
As I was writing up the lab background here’s my 🧠:
They my not know about TOS...I shall have them watch a clip!
🤔..what was the crew compliment on the NCC-1701 under Kirk? (~430) What is the tribble equivalent?
They won’t know the name of the starship 😢...I’ll include it!
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🏙️#Sex biases in the individuals studied in the lab & field. Why is it more often males of a species? What data are we missing because of that bias? 🤔
(Prompted by: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…)
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Any recommendations for ways to collect data about color & pattern from images of #wildlife? We want to quantify things like %cover by a color & intensity.
Have enjoyed reading some of the work by Davis & Grayson on quantifying #color, hue, % coverage in #newts and other animals.
They used Fovea Pro, a Photoshop add in. The newer version (QIA-64) costs ~$800 😬
Am also considering the methods of Paterson & Blouin-Demers where they quantify continuous variation in throat color in #lizards using Adobe & ultimately analysis in #imageJ (but haven't had time to test it out yet)