5/9 Twitter Thursday

For this week's Twitter Thursday, I followed Cole Burton, Jay Lombardi and Annabella Helman. The latter two are carnivore ecologists from acclaimed universities, and given that my chosen species, wolves, are carnivores, I thought it was apt to follow them. Cole Burton just had a cute header image in his profile (he studies wildlife biology/conservation at UBC in Canada).

For hashtags, I searched #wolfpups, #wolves and #wolftraining. Most of the results for all of these were pretty irrelevant, but I found #wolves to be the most useful with regard to the research I plan to be writing about.

The original tweet I'm most proud of is pictured above - I don't think what I wrote was particularly awe-inspiring, but I felt that that research study was the most important because it proves that wolves CAN be trained, and that they do exhibit a high degree of intelligence on par with pet dogs when it comes to interpreting human gestures, given the right training environment.

Lastly, I responded to a blog post on Diana L. Cornejo's Wix site, which was about birds being able to use tools. It was an interesting article because it challenged the idea of humans/apes/monkeys being the only animals capable of making or using tools.