Zoe Turner
😸 Mammal enthusiast.
👀 Watching all the silly (mon)gooses 🪿
👩🏼🔬 zoologist by day, 📚🐛 bookworm by night.
📍🇬🇧 Currently: PhD student - INTERGROUP Project, Uni of Exeter, Cornwall
- 🚨 New paper! 🚨 In exploring maternal traits and social and environmental conditions on rate of gestational weight gain in meerkats: 🍼 Gestational growth is strongly nutrition-dependent 📈 Faster prenatal growth increases pup survival & more! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Zoe TurnerHello everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", gestational growth in wild meerkats is driven mainly by maternal nutrition and environmental productivity, shaping offspring birth weight and survival without telomere costs, revealing limited prenatal plasticity but strong postnatal adaptive 🌎
- 🚨 New paper! 🚨 In exploring the ontogeny of foraging in cooperatively breeding meerkats: 🐛 Foraging skill development doesn't align with the delayed onset of breeding 🪲 Foraging performance likely constrained by physical traits @asab.org #AnimalBehaviourJournal Read more ✨ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
- Big big thanks to the LARG Cambridge group for all of the help and support with this one 🫶🏼 it has been in process for a while, and very proud of the outcome for my first publication! 😃
- FOCAS Fest 2025 was a success! 🥳🐻🐯🐵🌿 So proud of our Learning & Discovery team and everyone involved at The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary and all visiting exhibitors! 🤩 An incredible time bringing conservation, science and art all into one jam packed weekend to start the IOW Biosphere festival! 💗
- Today on "favourite thing a young child said to me"(whilst running a busy education stall at a conservation and science festival).... *Me making the badge-making dramatic by saying "here is where the magic happens"* *Deadpan 4 year old*: "that isn't magic, that is science" 😆😆😆
- Reposted by Zoe Turner🚨New PrePrint out on the Kalahari Meerkats. In this study we quantified two axes of sociality to explain how developmental needs of pups shape meerkat social life. @zoejturn.bsky.social Neumann Christof & Tommaso Sacca ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…
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- Alongside being busy with a couple of papers currently in review or in press (!!), I'm extremelyyyy busy right now with my current visitor experience and education roles! Here's a few snaps of the last weeks! Lots of fun craft activities, and even better seeing CeCe enjoy her enrichment we made!!
- I am finding this work incredibly rewarding, getting to share my knowledge and inspire the younger generation, AND can't complain when I'm surrounded with incredible views and/or the sweetest rescue animals 🫶🏼🐾
- 🚨 New preprint! ✨ From the work I conducted for my MSc thesis, we explored the social niche of meerkats in relation to the social and ecological needs of cooperative pup care during foraging. doi.org/10.32942/X26... 🐾 🐾 🐾
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- Me: I'm ready for some CARNAGEEEEE 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 Also me, when CARNAGE comes in the wildcard battle removing my first combatant: #2025MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Zoe TurnerWhat if we could compare animal social structures across time and space? Now we can! The MacaqueNet database spans 14 macaque species and 61 populations over 40+ years, unlocking new possibilities in comparative social behaviour research. 🔎 Explore the project at doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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- Remembered that the bracket drops tomorrow and I cannot wait 🙌🏼
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- Reposted by Zoe TurnerLet's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
- Reposted by Zoe TurnerCurious about what this course is like? Here is a glimpse into the experience youtu.be/qJD1tOXZYZY?... @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
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- Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🥳👩🏼🔬👩🏼💻🔬🧪🐒🐱 Very very grateful for all the incredible, supportive, and inspirational women I've been able to work alongside on this crazy crazy journey 🥰
- Happy New Year! 🎊 After feeling like death for a week after my thesis submission 🥲😅 I finally enjoyed a good Christmas break with my family, and have a few days ahead celebrating mine and my best friend's birthdays 🥰 Hope everyone else has also managed some good rest! 🫶🏼🥂
- It's been a couple of weeks of very up & down emotions, but after my presentation yesterday and initial version submission of my thesis today, the relief is kicking in and the finish line is in sight! 😅🥹 Second round of presenting next week, then a much needed Christmas break! What a year! 🥂
- In today's hour of procrastination, I managed to finally guess *most* of the Hidden Books game... Except this one!!!! Begging for help here, as any extra hints I've found still don't help 😅
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- Meerkat skull with my favourite Kalahari flowers 🌺 skull approximately to actual size! all design and tattooing credit to Holly Valley tattoo 🫶🏼 #ScienceInk
- I think hugging the wall heaters is a meerkat's equivalent to getting a sunrise lamp to combat S.A.D 🤭
- As part of Switzerland's "future day", some children lucky enough to have parents/family working at UZH helped me with caring for our meerkats today! It's always a fun time sharing meerkat facts to the next gen of animal enthusiasts! 🥰 (pic is from the last time I did a bigger outreach event!)
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- Once again, I have been excited by finding the Hidden Books Game has begun, and getting hyped with knowing one immediately!... And then the realisation hits that this is going to once again be a painful source of ongoing procrastination 🥲
- Reposted by Zoe Turner🚨 We're delighted to announce that applications have opened for our residential, long-term volunteer positions in 2025. Vacant roles: 🪶 Bird Observatory Assistant 🐧 Seabird Fieldworker 🦭 Seal Fieldworker 🪚 Assistant Ranger Accommodation and meals are provided free for the duration of the roles.
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- Figured I should probably start using this app more, and start with a proper intro! 🙋🏼♀️ I'm Zoe, currently almost finished with my MSc thesis based upon meerkat sociality 🫂 Huge interest in animal behaviour, social systems, and interactions. 😸 Been a "meerkatter" for almost 5 years now!
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