Working together… or just in close proximity of one another? As an earlier post has mentioned, this week has revolved around animal welfare – which has included not only individual projects where we must formulate our own opinions, but also group assignments where we’ve created in-depth scenarios to fill in and evaluate applications to ethical… Continue reading Group assignment on Animal Welfare
Month: October 2016
What does Animal Welfare mean to you?
Free as a bird! This week has handled a lot of interesting ethical questions regarding animal welfare – and rightly so! As managers or researchers frequently deal with live animals it becomes exceptionally important that we do not only understand what national or international law states and the conceptual origin of such, but perhaps most… Continue reading What does Animal Welfare mean to you?
Running up towards exams
All right, we now have about 2 weeks left until our exam and then a further couple of days until we present our individual projects, and the steam pressure is about to overclock! Meanwhile the temperature feels like it has dropped to less than 10 °C all day around, which really has started marked we… Continue reading Running up towards exams
Day out by the lake
Maybe it’s my day today! I guess one of the things I’ll have to get used to as an aspiring amateur wildlife photographer is just never knowing if I’ll see anything – or if I’ll be quick enough to capture the moment! This week I went out for a couple of hours hoping to get… Continue reading Day out by the lake
Crowd-Sourcing Data
Don’t you just get the idea sometimes that you just can’t find any chanterelles wherever you look and all you want to do is give up in pure frustration? Well, I guess the world of researchers isn’t too far flung after all – what can happen is that some data is way too difficult to… Continue reading Crowd-Sourcing Data
Distance Sampling Field Exercise
Look carefully! Picture of the day: A Great Tit (?), ISO 100, 196 mm, f/5.6, 1/160. Earlier this week we had a field exercise in distance sampling – really makes you think about how difficult it can be to spot what you’re looking for! Really so if you’re looking for something that’s (kind-of) camouflaged, small,… Continue reading Distance Sampling Field Exercise