Christina Grace T
PhD Researcher at City University of Hong Kong|📚 Studying the Behavior and Associated fauna of feral bovids 🐃|🌿 Passionate about wildlife ecology, animal behaviour, and conservation
- Daurian Redstart female
- HK's largest laughingthrush!
- Reposted by Christina Grace TThe Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm
- Reposted by Christina Grace T🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
- Submit your application by 30 November 2025📆
- 🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
- 🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
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- 🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
- Face to face with the landowner. Rent is due 😂🐃 📍Shap Long, Hong Kong
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- Did you know? Grebes can compress their feathers to reduce buoyancy, helping them dive easily. 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve
- Reposted by Christina Grace TOur latest feral cattle paper “Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate” is out today in open access @royalsociety.org Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, @ghodgson.bsky.social & @amcell.bsky.social
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View full threadReposted by Christina Grace TWe present the first evidence of seasonal coat colour changes in cattle, with paler individuals in the wet season and darker ones in the dry season, suggesting plastic phenotypes. The main driver of seasonal coat colour appears to be thermoregulation, supporting the thermal melanism hypothesis.
- Reposted by Christina Grace TYou can find out more about HK feral cattle phenotypes in our paper royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/..., and learn more about this unique populations on our website hkcattleresearch.org And let us know your thought about our findings 😀
- Nature’s resilience in the shadow of progress 🌱 🪶 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve
- Water buffalo by birth, supermodel by attitude😅🐃
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- 🌿 Native to tropical coastlines, the Sea Mango (Cerbera manghas) thrives where few plants can tolerate salt, heat, and shifting sands. But beneath its fragrant flowers and mango-like fruit lies a potent danger: cerberin, a toxic cardiac glycoside that has caused fatal poisonings across Asia.
- Male fiddler crabs show sexual dimorphism, with one claw much larger than the other. This oversized claw helps attract mates, defend territory, and even cool the crab down by releasing body heat while it's active on hot tidal flats
- Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶
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- From the paddies of Long Valley🌱🪶
- Shek Sheung welcomed me with these beauties! 🦋
- Just a few favorites from Ma On Shan today
- Spotted a large Carpenter bee visiting Kandelia obovata flowers of Tai O mangroves🐝🥀
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- All of these photos tell a story: a pair of Black-collared Starlings walking together, then one flies off and returns with a thread-like material, possibly presenting it to the other, both birds call loudly together before taking flight. 📍Ma on Shan
- Peek-a-moo, I see you! 😆🐮 📍Tap mun, HK
- Tap Mun version of traffic jam: sharing the path with the real locals 🐄🐖
- Congratulations Dr. Hodgson! @ghodgson.bsky.social 🎉🥰
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- Reposted by Christina Grace THow can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4
- Just a tailorbird going through its morning rituals 💚 📍Pui O, Lantau
- Reposted by Christina Grace T"Allogrooming duration increased with bystander number, suggesting that cattle potentially advertise relationships and status to peers." I absolutey love that cattle are showing off their friendships in front of others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Christina Grace TVery excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Christina Grace TStronger early-life bonds between father and daughter baboons are linked to increased female lifespan, highlighting the potential benefits of paternal involvement in social mammals. doi.org/g9sfpv
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- Reposted by Christina Grace TNew paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! Non-native species & income shape #urbanbird diversity & #ecosystemservices in #Iberia 🐦🏙️ Surprising finding? Lower-income areas provide more bird-related services, thanks in part to non-native species like #parakeets. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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- Reposted by Christina Grace TWild Buffalo Divide Hong Kong Neighbors in Surprising Ways In the marshlands of Hong Kong's South Lantau Island, where skyscrapers give way to wetlands, roughly 115 feral water buffalo have become unlikely neighbors to humans—and opinions about these massive ungulates are as diverse as the city…
- Reposted by Christina Grace TIf you visit Hong Kong, it's well worth taking a boat to Lantau to see the feral buffalo - they are incredible 🐃🐃🐃 (Last year I was so lucky to visit them together with the team behind this brilliant work!)
- Reposted by Christina Grace TPlain speaking to help save the remaining 115 free ranging water buffalo in Hong Kong 😍 🐃 @amcell.bsky.social relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/06/17/p...
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- Read the paper from our HK Cattle Team on how Provisioning and seasonality influence endoparasite infections in Hong Kong’s feral cattle: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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- Reposted by Christina Grace TSeagrass in India’s Palk Bay supports dugongs, sea turtles & coastal communities – but it’s under threat. With support from Standard Chartered, @zslofficial.bsky.social leads a study to explore if #BlueCarbon credits could fund its protection & support local livelihoods: www.sc.com/en/news/sust...
- Reposted by Christina Grace TDo you have expertise in Animal Behavior & in Editorial work? Open position below👇🏼
- We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
- Why walk when you can float?🐃😌 This is B Jay from Pui O, Lantau Island. #WaterBuffaloLife #SpaTime
- Reposted by Christina Grace T📢NEW funding criteria for ASAB Research Grants📢 From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants. Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary. Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help
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- Buffalo best friends🐃👭? This study on Hong Kong’s female water buffaloes reveals how personality shapes strong bonds - give it a read! ⬇️
- Excited to share our (w/ @Kate Flay and @amcell.bsky.social) first Water Buffalo 🐃 paper published in @cellpress.bsky.social iScience doi.org/10.1016/j.is... We show that female buffalo show temporally stable preferential bonds or friendships and that friendships are influenced by personalities.
- Read the latest paper from our HK Cattle Team🐄⬇️
