George Hodgson

@ghodgson.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral fellow interested in sociality, social cognition and animal behaviour. Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄

Photograph of two feral cattle individuals staring at the camera; the animal on the left is laying down, the animal on the right is standing up, the background is green vegetation
Photograph of herd of feral cattle walking to the right; all six are orientated the same way and walking accross the grass with trees in the background
Graph of ordinal dominance rank (x) against proportion of scans spent foraging (y) for females (triangles) and males (squares) in a group of Hong Kong feral cattle; the graph shows a positive association between rank and time spent foraging
Photograph of face of brown feral cattle individual
Photograph of five brown feral cattle in Hong Kong lying in a field with one individual grazing behind the group
Photograph of two brown feral cattle in Hong Kong standing next to a path and staring at the camera
Photograph of beech woodland with bluebells and a path through the middle
Chris Packam presenting to an audience of people outside Parliament in the United Kingdom.
A photo of a hairy caterpillar staring at the camera
Photograph showing close-up face of a langur monkey
Photo of panel discussion at Behaviour 2025, Kolkata.
Photograph of a group of feral cattle lying in a field in Hong Kong, with one black bull standing in the middle, and one brown animal lying in the background with its head on another animal's back
Photograph of a female brown feral cattle individual licking another on the neck
Photograph of two feral cattle exchanging allogrooming in the background with a single feral cattle in the foreground looking on as a bystander within 3 body lengths of the dyad
Photograph of four Hong Kong feral cattle separated into two pairs of animals, both allogrooming (licking) the other, surrounded by trees and shrub
Photograph of a brown feral cattle grooming the back of another cow, with a pink and grey tongue sticking out of her mouth
Photograph of approximately 10 feral buffalo wallowing in a grassy area in Hong Kong with trees and hills behind them
Photograph of a black feral cow lying on the ground with a blue background in Hong Kong
Photograph of a brown feral cow eating green plants in Hong Kong
Photograph of a brown feral cow standing up and licking the ear of a smaller brown feral cattle individual sat on the grown.
Photograph of a brown feral cow lying on a sandy beach in Hong Kong with city buildings and mountains visible in the background.
Photograph of a group of feral cattle lying in a field in Hong Kong, with one black bull standing in the middle, and one brown animal lying in the background with its head on another animal's back.
Photograph of the head of a brown feral cattle in a green bush, with most of the cow's body being obscured by leaves.
A photograph of a beige feral cattle in Hong Kong on a grassy area with mountains visible in the background.
Graphical abstract of the paper "Epidemiology and risk factors for endoparasite infection in subtropical feral cattle in Hong Kong". The legend reads: Hong Kong feral cattle have a high richness and prevalence of endoparasite taza with low strongyle-type egg and Eimeria oocyst counts. Co-infection, group size, provisioning, sex and body condition impacted infection risk. The methods included 177 cattle, 262 samples, evaluation of 3 infection indices, identification of 15 endoparasite taxa in relation to risk factors.
Group of feral cattle in a short video running around and playing in a grassy field, kicking up their legs.
Tania Perroux standing next to a scientific poster on "Humidity, sunshine and wind speed shape body condition of subtropical feral cattle" at poster stand A14.2
Black and white film photo of a cow sat down in a field looking at the camera, with several cows in the background under some trees
Online research seminar poster detailing the titles and abstracts of two talks held at 2pm 2 Dec 2024 HKT: talk 1 by Tania Perroux is Humidity, sunshine and wind speed shape body condition of subtropical feral cattle. Talk 2 by George Hodgson is Dyadic relationships and behavioural synchrony in feral cattle. Registration link is https://forms.gle/bmMkiCwBXKBQ5Xff8
Two fluffy decorative balls with eyes
Black and white film picture of three feral cows in a field in Hong Kong
George standing next to a scientific poster at the conference ISBE 2024
6 feral cows in a field surrounded by trees
Photo of group of brown cattle grazing in a field with trees around them
Poster advertising the workshop 'Global Synergy for Animal Welfare', with 5 plenary speaker photos, dates June 19-20 2024, logos of supporting organisations and a QR code for accessing website
A cow lying on a beach with water, mountains and buildings behind
A conference room with a slide showing hypotheses about queen bee cognition
A cow standing near a coastline in Hong Kong