After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi and Marie-Ka returned to French Guiana in the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne together with Sophie and Mathilde. They spent two weeks the lab of long time collaborator Benoit de Thoisy working on roadkill specimens preserved in the JAGUARS collection (http://kwata.net/la-collection-jaguars-pour-l-etude-de-la-biodiversite.html). This allowed the ConvergeAnt team to perform dissections of roadkill myr

Frédéric, Rémi, and Amandine attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Nathan Mazet (ISEM). Frédéric presented the results of our successful efforts to obtain genomes from mammalian roadkill specimen using the Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT). Before the conference, they spent a week between the Pasteur Institute dissecting a freshly found roadkill three-finger

Frédéric and Rémi conducted a third fieldwork session at Tussen die Riviere Reserve in the Free State province of South Africa with Aude Caizergues (CEFE) and Tshediso Putsane from the Department of Mammalogy of the National Museum of Bloemfontein. This allowed collecting fresh fecal samples from aardwolf for the third year in a row, as well as ants and termites from the reserve to increase our reference database of available preys. #Fieldwork #SouthAfrica #Collaboration #Aar

Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi, Sérgio and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Pierre-Olivier Antoine (ISEM). Frédéric chaired a session on Neotropical Diversification. Before the conference, they spent five days at the Pasteur Institute dissecting roadkill armadillos and anteaters, as well as the giant anteater of the Cayenne Zoo that died earlier that

Frédéric, Lionel and Rachid conducted a new fieldwork session at Tussen die Riviere Reserve in the Free State province of South Africa with Nico Avenant from the National Museum of Bloemfontein. This allowed collecting numerous fecal samples from aardwolf as well as ants and termites from the reserve to constitute a reference database. #Fieldwork #SouthAfrica #Collaboration #Aardwolf #Tussen #Roadkills #Termites #Ants

Frédéric and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) with Andrea Sanchez Meseguer (ISEM). Before the conference, they conducted a roadkill survey along the west part of RN1 towards Saint-Laurent du Maroni and up to Awala-Yalimapo and also collected some termites along the road. They finally had the opportunity to dissect a well conserved specimen of Tamandua tetradactyla at the Pasteu

Frédéric and Nathalie conducted fieldwork in the Tussen die Riviere Reserve in the Free State province of South Africa. This session made possible thanks to a collaboration with Nico Avenant from the National Museum (Bloemfontein) to collect fecal samples from aardwolf latrines that are common in the reserve. #Fieldwork #SouthAfrica #Collaboration #Aardwolf #Tussen #Roadkills

Frédéric and Lionel took occasion of their presence in French Guiana to cross the Maroni river for visiting Monique Pool, the director of the Green Heritage Fund Suriname in Paramaribo. The short visit was very fruitful and the lively discussion set the scene for future scientific collaborations on xenarthrans of Suriname. They even had the chance to participate to a three-toed sloth rescue live! #Fieldwork #Collaboration #Roadkills #Sloths #Suriname

Frédéric and Lionel attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) with Myriam Boivin and Fabien Condamine (ISEM). After the conference, they conducted a roadkill survey along the west part of RN1 towards Saint-Laurent du Maroni. They also had the opportunity to dissect a pygmy anteater specimen at the Pasteur Institute with collaborator Benoit de Thoisy. #Fieldwork #Collaboration #FrenchGuiana #Ante