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Big Project for the Littlest Oki Island: Behavioural Biology and Human-Wildlife Conflict on Chiburijima

Kasia Majewski

Apr 4
3 min

Big Project for the Littlest Oki Island: Behavioural Biology and Human-Wildlife Conflict on Chiburijima

The following is a blog post written by Marie Gamaz, a masters student from the University of Strasbourg who is working with us on the...

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A Tale of Two Islands: OkiTan Joins YakuTan!

Kasia Majewski

Dec 3, 2023
4 min

A Tale of Two Islands: OkiTan Joins YakuTan!

There doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence about how and when tanuki were introduced to Yakushima, although Sato et al. published...

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Iconic Invasives: When Problematic Populations have Charisma

Kasia Majewski

Nov 7, 2023
4 min

Iconic Invasives: When Problematic Populations have Charisma

If I had to make a word cloud about my research project and the terms that people use to describe our work on invasive tanuki, the word...

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Mandrills, Turtles, and Tanuki: My three-month internship with the MacIntosh Lab

Andrew MacIntosh

Sep 29, 2023
5 min

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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From Kindness to Career: The Surprising Link between Being Nice and Fieldwork in Japanese Forests

Kasia Majewski

Sep 26, 2023
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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Building Our Network: Our Latrine List and Colleague Community Grows

Kasia Majewski

Jul 5, 2023
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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Weaseling Out: The Art of Trapping Tanuki

Kasia Majewski

Feb 1, 2023
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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Rare Meat: The Trouble with Tanuki and Turtles

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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Love at First Shite: Breeding Behaviour of Raccoon Dogs

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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A Rare Find: Yakushima Weasel Dissection

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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Discovering Yakushima; A Most Successful Pilot Study

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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Meet our Hiraku 3MT Champion 2020 - Kenneth Keuk!

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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NerdNite Kansai x Conserv'Session Online Event [9-27-2020]

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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Digital lab meetups and and a note about movin' on out

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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