Kai Shanebeck
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Kai (he/they) is an ecologist and parasitologist who studies the parasites of aquatic mammals (otters, seals, mink) as well as vector-borne and zoonotic disease dynamics. They did their MSc in Ecology at the University of Bremen (Germany) and PhD in Ecology at the University of Alberta (Canada). Currently they are a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University in New York.
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are the only fully aquatic otter species, inhabiting some of the coldest coastal waters on Earth. They are also the smallest marine mammals, typically spending their entire lives in seas that would quickly chill most other mammals to the core. Yet, unlike such marine…
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