Andrew MacIntosh
Mandrills, Turtles, and Tanuki: My three-month internship with the MacIntosh Lab
A blog by MacLab Intern, Alexander Hendry. Greetings! My name is Alexander Hendry. I was introduced in Kasia’s recent post about...
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Kasia Majewski
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
From Kindness to Career: The Surprising Link between Being Nice and Fieldwork in Japanese Forests
Christopher Attewell-Hughes poses next to a waterfall in Yakushima. The following is a blog post written by one of our interns,...
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Kasia Majewski
- Jul 5
- 4 min
Building Our Network: Our Latrine List and Colleague Community Grows
"Is that a latrine there?!" One of our interns asks me, excitedly pointing to a perfectly feces shaped seed casing which had started to...
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Kasia Majewski
- Feb 1
- 5 min
Weaseling Out: The Art of Trapping Tanuki
The three of us huddle over the phone screen as the familiar black and white videos flick on and off, 25 seconds at a time, taken...
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Kasia Majewski
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
Rare Meat: The Trouble with Tanuki and Turtles
Never before have a I felt more like Sherlock Holmes trying to solve a who-dunnit mystery than when I arrived on Inakahama Beach at the...
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Kasia Majewski
- Sep 21, 2022
- 3 min
Love at First Shite: Breeding Behaviour of Raccoon Dogs
The camera switches on to a black and white video with a muffled click. It's 25 seconds long - just long enough to capture a tanuki, or...
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Kasia Majewski
- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
A Rare Find: Yakushima Weasel Dissection
Important scientific data can weasel its way into the most unlikely of places. Earlier this year we were alerted that a Japanese weasel...
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Kasia Majewski
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
Discovering Yakushima; A Most Successful Pilot Study
With much of the world still shut due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, just being able to set foot on the island of Yakushima already...
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Andrew MacIntosh
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
Of Drones and Raccoon Dogs
A quick blog post to report that we're launching a new project in the MacIntosh Lab aimed at studying the tanuki (the Japanese word for...
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Andrew MacIntosh
- Nov 18, 2020
- 1 min
Meet our Hiraku 3MT Champion 2020 - Kenneth Keuk!
"Kenneth's blend of wit, cheese and science will be forever engrained in the annals of great science communication." - quote by Andrew...
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Andrew MacIntosh
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min
NerdNite Kansai x Conserv'Session Online Event [9-27-2020]
For any of you unfamiliar with the concept, "Nerd Nite" delivers fun and informative events around the world, featuring knowledgeable and...
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Andrew MacIntosh
- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
Digital lab meetups and and a note about movin' on out
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, everyone's just trying to figure out how to keep things rolling. While our institute...
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Andrew MacIntosh
- Mar 23, 2020
- 1 min
Welcome to the MacIntosh Lab
This is a space where we get to discuss our science, our missions and our adventures! Check back here for the latest news and information...
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