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Kasia Majewski

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...

Kasia Majewski

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...

Kasia Majewski

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...

Kasia Majewski

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...

Andrew MacIntosh

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...

Andrew MacIntosh

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...

Andrew MacIntosh

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...

Andrew MacIntosh

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...

Andrew MacIntosh

Welcome to the MacIntosh Lab

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