David Whyte Macdonald

This study examines how prey abundance and catchability at waterholes influence lion visitation patterns in a savannah ecosystem, finding that these factors only weakly explain visit frequency and duration.

This study compares movement patterns of rewilded and wild Persian leopards, finding rewilded leopards spend more time ranging and less time encamped, move slower, and have larger displacement.

The paper shows density increases network connectedness in wild animal populations, but effects saturate, with stronger spatial than social impacts.

The paper shows that pre-implantation genome-wide methylation in European badgers is influenced by environmental factors and linked to early-life traits, suggesting an epigenetic mechanism for adaptive plasticity.