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• News from the Hyaena’s Mouth: Part 3

  

  So there is one last exciting tidbit of hyaena related news…On March 7th we caught and collared a second brown hyaena, a male called Chomma. Chomma means... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• News From the Hyaena’s Mouth: PART 2

  

  Hi again. If you read the blog post News From the Hyaena’s Mouth: PART 1 then you should have an idea about the aims of the brown hyaena research at Lajuma.... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• News From the Hyaena’s Mouth: PART 1

  

  Hi everyone. It’s Katy Williams here. In October 2012 I began my PhD on human-brown hyaena relationships in the Soutpansberg Mountains. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• More Sad News – CC’s Death

  

  Last week we retrieved Drogo’s collar after he was shot by a farmer. A few days later we discovered the fate of another collared leopard. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Anakin

  

  On Tuesday February 12th we began a three week trapping period to target leopards, brown hyaenas, baboons, samango monkeys and a vervet monkey for collaring or... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Drogo’s Story

  

  Lajuma is a beautiful, serene and peaceful place. We have an incredibly diverse array of species living here, being protected here. At night we hear leopards... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Busy at Lajuma

  

  From 12th February through 3rd March Lajuma will be hosting a film crew from Triosphere as well as professional wildlife trapper and television host Dairen... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Moist

  

  It doesn’t rain, it pours.  This week at Lajuma we have been getting about 100mm of rainfall per day, and although we already posted some photos, we have a few... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Our Earthwatch Heroes

  

  From December 30th until January 10th a group of nine Earthwatch volunteers from the United States and Canada came to help with the Primate and Predator... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Hyaena Funding Success

  

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  Posted on 17 December 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Thanks

  

  Hi everyone. It’s 8 days till the SciFund Challenge project to raise money towards our brown Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Tis the Season To…have Babies

  

  Its that time of year again. Time to stuff yourself silly and spend time with your family. And it’s no different for samango monkeys. The rains have come so foo... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Building up Bush Camp

  

  We were recently lucky enough to be awarded a grant from Durham University to develop facilities for our field station, and work has now begun! We are developin... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Thank Yous!

  The Primate and Predator Project would like to send a big thank you out to everyone who has contributed so far towards the SciFund Challenge brown hyaena... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Help Us Make Science Happen!

  

  Its an exciting time – we are beginning a new phase of research! Katy has started her PhD on conflict between people and brown hyaenas (more on that to come) an... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• If You Build It, They Will Come

  

  We have posted before about our leopard collaring efforts. While this is providing interesting data in itself, we also want to collar some baboons so that we ca... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Who Killed Bambi?

  

  While Marion was tagging photos from the most recent camera check, she saw something she hadn’t seen in the traps before- a tiny bushbuck! The people at the des... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Big in Belgium

  

  On Friday a Belgian film crew arrived to make a documentary on Griet following the samango monkeys for a TV-show called ‘All about animals’ or, like it’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• The Eagle is in the Nest

  

  When studying the threat of predation for primates at Lajuma we have primarily been focussing on the risk posed by leopards. However a new opportunity has arise... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Baboon Bones

  

  On the July 25th while conducting their daily observations, Pete and Brittany, two baboon primatologists at Lajuma watched as a female baboon unexpectedly fell... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE