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About Clementine:
About Clementine:
I am interested in ethology and animal behavior. I have always been fascinated with all animals, but mostly birds of prey. I currently work with a wide variety of exotic animals, including owls, falcons, lemurs, kangaroos, capybaras, and many different reptiles in educational outreach to teach others about their fascinating adaptations and behaviors. I also have a deep appreciation and intrigue for the way animals both behave in their natural environments and how they function and adapt. In the lab I work as an undergraduate Research Assistant on a project involving prey-capture behavior of the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike. Specifically, I combine videos of their prey-attack behavior with micro-CT scans of prey carcasses to better understand how they dispatch their prey. Please see the Loggerhead Shrike research page for an overview and below for the details of my undergrad research.
Contact: clembostock@gmail.com
Clementine's Undergraduate Research
I am looking at micro-CT scans of vertebrates that have been attacked and dispatched by San Clemente Loggerhead Shrikes and scoring the locations (and degrees) of damages to the spinal column. I am also reviewing videos of these predation events to better understand specifically how the shrikes impart thee damages to their prey, to complement the work of Sustaita et al. (2018).
3D tracking of a San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike in pursuit during a predation event (Image by Rob Hanna)
3D tracking of a San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike in pursuit during a predation event (Image by Rob Hanna)
Micro-CT scan of an island night lizard showing clear damage to the cervical spine following a fatal shrike attack
Micro-CT scan of an island night lizard showing clear damage to the cervical spine following a fatal shrike attack
Clementine in action...
Clementine presenting at SuperSTEM Saturday 2023, CSU San Marcos, with the help of two friends.
Clementine presenting at SuperSTEM Saturday 2023, CSU San Marcos, with the help of two friends.
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