WEEK 4: Twitter Tuesday

Another week, another Tuesday, and even more Twitter. This week we were tasked with following 10 more account and looking through a few of my classmates pages and liking/responding to the information they have found! When looking at my classmates pages, I find it really fun to see how everyone gets creative in their own ways when tweeting or describing facts that they found. So many pictures I saw today were funny which made their content more engaging, seeing just how entertaining pictures can be, I want to start incorporating not only pictures but pictures that will capture my target audiences attention. Other than my classmates creativity, I learned more about how canine animals are able to communicate with each other such as foxes having scent glands on multiple parts of their body, which are able to send signals to other foxes as well. Even though this is not the canine I’m studying, still interesting non-the-less (fox and the hound anyone?). Next, I’ve been looking more towards what accounts are being recommended to me but also the accounts the researches themselves are following about dogs. Using this, I found the account @ubcAWP which is the UBC animal welfare account which focuses on posting articles about their own new research about a variety of animals. I think this account can be posting some content that may be really valuable for people depending on what they’re looking for.

A new thing we were able to do this week was respond to other people blog posts, so many of them were so detailed and really pulled some good quotes out to help my understanding of concepts we continue to learn about. My favorite post touched on how animals respond to their own feelings of grief and loss and how in the NOVA bird brain documentary, the bird began picking its feathers. Earlier in the year we learned about how animals are able to grieve for animals apart of their group and how they may react. I thought this was a really good call back to how our initial knowledge started and how it has continue to develop and connect to our other research.