Lydia Möcklinghoff

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Lydia Möcklinghoff (2018)

Lydia Möcklinghoff (born February 3, 1981 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German zoologist , tropical ecologist , author and anteater researcher . She is the first scientist who has observed the life of the Giant Anteater, which is endangered according to the IUCN, for more than a year and researches the social behavior of the animal, requirements for its habitat, the endangerment of the animal and the conditions necessary for its survival.

Life

Lydia Möcklinghoff grew up with her sister in Cologne and Walldorf near Heidelberg. From 2003 she studied biology at the University of Giessen and, after completing her basic studies in 2005, moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg to study tropical ecology and behavioral biology . By 2008 she completed her diploma in biology with a focus on animal ecology and tropical biology . She studied with Karl Eduard Linsenmair , Frauke Fischer and Jürgen Tautz , among others , and from 2005 to 2008 spent several research stays with direct observations on the ecology and behavior of giant anteaters in Boa Vista in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima . She wrote her dissertation on her studies on the acceptance of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in relation to the artificial plantation habitat in northern Brazil.

Giant anteater in the Pantanal (photo 2010)

Funded with a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation until June 2013 , she has been researching and working as a doctoral student at the Zoological Research Museum Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn, Tropical Ecology working group with the topic: Conservation relevant research on mammals in the Pantanal wetland in Brazil- implications for a wildlife compatible land use practice . and cooperates in Brazil with the Mato Grosso State University. In 2009 she took part in an excursion in the Brazilian Pantanal in the team led by project leader Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann , which explored the terrestrial mammal fauna with the help of camera traps and direct observation with a focus on researching the giant anteater.

Lydia Möcklinghoff is responsible for the first and currently only multi-year research project on the ecology and behavior of the giant anteater of the Association of Zoological Gardens (VdZ). The German / Brazilian cooperation with veterinarians and biologists is financially and professionally supported by Dortmund Zoo and Cologne Zoo . She lives in the Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne , but has been spending several months a year field studies , mammal camera trap studies and behavioral research on the giant anteater in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul on the 110 square kilometer cattle farm "Fazenda Barranco Alto" in the southern Pantanal since 2009 . The farm is run by the biologist Lucas Leuzinger and his wife Marina Schweizer, an agricultural engineer, who provide a house on the site for up to eight scientists from various branches of research.

research

Giant anteater with cub in the Pantanal

Much is unknown about the behavior of the great anteater in the wild, as no long-term observations exist and the few larger studies on the behavior of the great anteater are partly out of date. Lydia Möcklinghoff tries to clarify open questions, such as the choice of partner and the mating behavior of the animals, which could only be observed in the zoo but never in the wild, as well as the animal's marking behavior.

She examined the behavior of the animals in an artificial plantation habitat in northern Brazil. Large parts of the native savannah were reforested with valuable wood plantations. In her dissertation, she demonstrated that the valuable wood plantations, sustainably managed with the acacia species Acacia mangium, were not only accepted by the giant anteaters as an alternative habitat, but were also preferred to the natural environment of the northern Brazilian savannah. Contrary to the values ​​from the literature, the animals that appear there in exceptional density had very small, overlapping grazing areas in which they avoid encounters with the help of a temporally organized use of space, which is possibly coordinated by scent marks on trees. Together with a colleague, she observed for the first time that anteaters scratch the bark of trees, climb them and rub against the trunk at a height of about one meter, presumably to attach scented tags that could be used for social communication between the animals. This marking behavior was not previously known from anteaters.

Your research in the Pantanal serves to protect the giant anteaters, which have already become extinct in some areas. The aim is to develop protection concepts for the species and its habitat. For this purpose, data on activity and movement patterns are collected through a camera trap study and a photo register of the animals is created. It was shown that anteaters have offspring every year in the wild. The observations from northern Brazil with regard to stable, mutually overlapping grazing areas could also be confirmed in the Pantanal, as was the exchange of information through scent marks. With the development of transmitter collars adapted to the anteater's physique, the anteater's movement patterns can be tracked for over a year.

Publications

In her 2015 book I think my Puma whistles! As a researcher in the richest animal paradise in the world , she describes her research activities in Brazil. In 2016 she published the book Die Supernasen. How conservationists anteaters & co. Save from extinction an overview of the current fields of work of zoologists and ecologists and "an authentic picture of today's field research [...] peppered with information on the culture of the respective country and small excursions into ecology and evolution". Experience from her research stays were incorporated, such as the initiation of a camera trap study in the mountain rainforest among the Naso people on the Rio Teribe in Panama in 2014 .

  • Pea-brain parallel universe research using the example of the giant anteater . In: A Science Slam Book . Edited by André Lampe, Lektora Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95461-095-2
  • The super noses. How conservationists save anteaters & Co. from extinction . With illustrations by Lydia Möcklinghoff. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3446448742
  • I think my puma whistles! As a researcher in the richest animal paradise in the world . Bastei Lübbe, 2015, ISBN 978-3-404-60861-4
  • Lydia Möcklinghoff, Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann , Kathrin Burs, Ricarda Wistuba, Marinêz I. Marques, Olaf Jahn, Todor Ganchev, Josiel M. de Figueiredo, Filipe Ferreira de Deus: Descobrindo a vida secreta dos mamíferos do Pantanal . In: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia , No. 108, April 2014, pp. 7–8
  • The Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) - Influence of natural and anthropogenic changes in habitat on the ecology of giant anteaters in the southern Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil . Dissertation, 2011
  • Social Organization and Habitat Use of the Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Timber Plantations in Northern Brazil . Diploma thesis, 2008

Public appearances (selection)

In her books, readings, lectures, science slams , radio and television reports, she informs about species protection , her research and the life of the giant anteater.

Television and radio

Science slams, readings, lectures

  • Science Slam Cologne, April 11, 2018
  • Reading RWTH Aachen in the series LiteraTour Aachen , April 10, 2018
  • Science Slam, University of Giessen, November 3, 2017
  • Lecture Bergzoo Halle, April 25, 2017
  • Reading at Straubing Zoo, March 24, 2017
  • Lecture Cologne Zoo, December 13, 2016
  • Frankfurt Science Slam by the Physikalischer Verein , November 19, 2016
  • Science Slam Halle, November 18, 2016
  • Science Slam, October 2015
  • Science Slam Dortmund, May 27, 2013
  • Science Slam Karlsruhe, April 24, 2013

Web links

Commons : Lydia Möcklinghoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sebastian Lerche: Anteaters are her passion . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of July 28, 2012. Accessed October 29, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Endt: Guest in the pea-brain parallel universe . In: Zeit online from May 31, 2013. Accessed October 27, 2017
  3. ^ A b Lydia Möcklinghoff: Anteater researcher in Brazil . In: Der Spiegel from June 25, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2017
  4. ↑ People , SWR1 : Lydia Möcklinghoff in SWR1 People , from November 26, 2012, min. March 00, 30
  5. ↑ a b c Website of Lydia Möcklinghoff: Short biography . Retrieved October 27, 2017
  6. ↑ a b c d Association of Zoological Gardens (VdZ): Field projects in South and Central America: Giant anteater from December 14, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2017
  7. ^ Zoological Research Museum Koenig: Lydia Möcklinghoff Projects . Retrieved October 29, 2017
  8. ↑ a b Claudia Hauser: Lydia Möcklinghoff anteater researcher commutes between Cologne and northern Brazil . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 24, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2017
  9. ^ Fazenda Barranco Alto
  10. ↑ a b limited book preview of Die Supernasen . Retrieved October 29, 2017
  11. ↑ Rolf Kremming: Whoever says A ... must also say titmouse! . In: Berliner Kurier from May 25, 2015. Accessed October 27, 2017
  12. ↑ a b Titus Arnu: The super noses . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from November 25, 2015. Retrieved October 27, 2017
  13. ↑ People , SWR1 : Lydia Möcklinghoff in SWR1 People , from November 26, 2012, min. 02/02/30
  14. ↑ a b University of Würzburg / Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology: Social Organization and Habitat Use of the Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Timber Plantations in Northern Brazil  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Diploma thesis) 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zoo3.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de  
  15. ↑ People , SWR1 : Lydia Möcklinghoff in SWR1 People , from November 26, 2012, min. 11/12/20
  16. ↑ Franziska Müschenich: book review . In: Spectrum of Science, January 11, 2017. Accessed October 27, 2017
  17. ^ Simone Guski: Research with camera trap and GPS transponders . In: Humanistic Press Service of March 2, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017
  18. ↑ limited book preview of I think my Puma whistles! . Retrieved October 29, 2017
  19. ^ Descobrindo a vida secreta dos mamíferos do Pantanal . In: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia , No. 108, April 2014, pp. 7–8
  20. ↑ Zoological Research Museum Koenig: Annual Report 2011, p. 74 . Retrieved October 29, 2017
  21. ↑ Flux FM : The FluxFM Anteater Diary , 14 episodes, June 4 - September 10, 2018
  22. ↑ Jörg Thadeusz , WDR2 : Lydia Möcklinghoff - Anteater Researcher ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Interview by Jörg Thadeusz from May 24, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  23. ↑ In conversation , Deutschlandfunk Kultur : Anteater pioneer . Interview by Britta Bürger from July 31, 2017
  24. ↑ SWR2 Knowledge: Aula , SWR2 : Portrait of an idiosyncratic mammal , download manuscript of the broadcast . Feature by Charlotte Grieser from June 20, 2017
  25. ^ West ART , WDR: Declaration of love to super noses: the zoologist Lydia Möcklinghoff , from April 10, 2017
  26. ^ Resonances , WDR 3 Live Radio, interview from April 10, 2017
  27. ↑ Sunday questions , WDR 2 : Research area: super noses and pea brains ( memento from October 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), from February 5, 2017
  28. ↑ Planet Wissen , WDR / SWR: Lydia Möcklinghoff fights for the anteater , Who will save the anteater? , 1 minute with Lydia Möcklinghoff, biologist , anteaters are specialists , from February 1, 2017
  29. ↑ 3 to 9 , Radio Bremen TV: Lydia Möcklinghoff, anteater researcher  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the ARD media library, Lydia Möcklinghoff, anteater researcher on YouTube, from December 2, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de  
  30. ↑ Lesart , Deutschlandfunk Kultur : Declaration of Love to the King of Monotaskers , from November 22, 2016
  31. ↑ People , SWR1 : Lydia Möcklinghoff in SWR1 People , from November 26, 2012
  32. ↑ Science Slam Affentheater , University of Gießen, from November 3, 2017
  33. ↑ Bergzoo Halle: At home with the anteaters - A research trip to the Brazilian Pantanal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from April 25, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hallelife.de  
  34. ↑ Reading Tiergarten Straubing: The super noses. How conservationists save anteaters and co. From extinction , from March 24, 2017
  35. ↑ Lecture Cologne Zoo: 1 River, 1 People, 10 Camera Traps - Documentation of the biodiversity on the Rio Teribe with the people of the Naso , from December 13, 2016
  36. ↑ Frankfurt Science Slam of the Physikalischer Verein : pea brain parallel universe research  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from November 19, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / riedberg.tv  
  37. ↑ Science Slam: Anteater Research in the Pantanal , from October 2015
  38. ^ Science Slam Dortmund: Lydia Möcklinghoff: Erbsenhirnparalleluniversumsforschung , from May 27, 2013
  39. ↑ Science Slam Karlsruhe: pea brain parallel universe research on the example of the great anteaters , from April 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Möcklinghoff, Lydia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and tropical ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven