For Anne Hilborn, the drive to tweet about cheetah poop and hyena sex began in 2014. That’s when she went on a research trip to Tanzania for her PhD at Virginia Tech, where looked at the impact of lions and hyenas on cheetah hunting and foraging behavior. She didn’t have any running water, but she had a smartphone and an internet connection.
“It was a way to sort of share my experience with more people,” says Hilborn, who tweets from @AnneWHilborn. “I started realizing that people are actually really interested in fieldwork and like to hear stories about following animals and getting stuck in the mud.”
Part of the impetus to reach the public was a source of funding for the trip. Using the crowdsourcing platform Razoo, Hilborn was able...
via The Verge
