Hyena Project 🐾

Whoop Whoop‼️We’ve got exclusive #HyenaFacts out at #BiologyLetters: Twin brothers often stick together after puberty & settle in the same clan to breed! We followed 148 ♂️♂️ pairs in #Ngorongoro to understand why👉doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #hyena #hyène #Hyäne #ハイエナ 1/3🧵

Job Alert 📢 3yr @LeverhulmeTrust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals + quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/res…

“This is one of my favourite moments in the wild. A perfectly timed shake of the hyena’s soaked fur and the sunlight gave this often-misunderstood creature a glowing halo.” This week's Instagram guest is #WPY59 young photographer Shashwat Harish: bit.ly/WPY-Instagram

The Ngorongoro #hyenas once more starring in a fantastic documentary! 🎥 Sir David Attenborough's Mammals - Discover how remarkable wildlife stories were captured on camera bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/me…

@Samellisq @Nature Congrats Sam!

Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in @Nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

In our first #MeetTheTeam we are introducing Axelle Delaunay. Axelle did her PhD at the TBP and the @MandrillusP co-supervised by Elise Huchard & Marie Charpentier studying the ecology and evolution of sibling rivalry in baboons and mandrills. 📷 (Axelle at @MandrillusP )

We celebrate our return by announcing 5 local field assistant positions to contribute to our research on wild chacma baboons🥾🐒 Apply to gain experience in animal behaviour and ecology data collection. On site costs & monthly allowance covered. Deadline 20 Mar 10am!⏰

All hail the queens of the wilderness. Queens, narrated by @ImAngelaBassett, premieres March 4 on National Geographic.

Awesome footage. 🎥 Fantastic animals. Great film and production team. 🥳Watch the #Ngorongoro #hyenas in *QUEENS*. Start tonight. ⁦ @NatGeo⁩ ⁦@DisneyPlus⁩ ⁦@hulu⁩ nationalgeographic.com/animals/topic/…

Awesome footage. Fantastic animals. Great film and production team. Watch the #Ngorongoro #hyenas in *QUEENS*. Start tonight. Official Trailer | National Geographic youtu.be/U9azic6W1U4?fe… via @YouTube

The ecology of ageing in wild societies: linking age structure & social behaviour doi.org/10.32942/X21893 Led by brill @Joe_Woodman1999. Great to have this out after years in-the-works! All welcome to our upcoming @royalsociety conf on this topic too: royalsociety.org/science-events…

You are an early career researcher #ECR who works in the field of #populationEcology and are interested in quantifying population stability? We offer a free workshop on demographic resilience and we will introduce our new R-package to assess time-varying demographic resilience.

Seals sleep underwate for about 10 minutes at a time during deep, 30-minute dives. Sometimes they hold kelp to avoid drifting away. [📹 michaelboyyd]

PhD studentship opportunity with @AndyDHigginson, me & @C_C_Ioannou. Work on social networks, game theory, and the evolution of relationships using theoretical models, field and lab-based animals. APPLY BY Jan 9th 2024. Info here: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Postdoc position on a newly funded social and environmental aging project with me, co-mentored by @nyuprimatology and @SMack_Lab. APPLY by Nov 26th. Details from @UoE_Jobs here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui… More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1xw…

Currently recruiting a new Postdoc and a PhD student to work in @CRABexeter on social networks – posts on the two opportunities in the 🧵

New paper led by WildCRU’s Charlotte Searle reveals important insight into spotted #hyaena population densities, interaction with other carnivores & human impacts. The valuable contribution of students in camera trap data analysis is also highlighted. See bit.ly/3QcizjJ

Excited to share the third (and final) manuscript from my PhD, now out as a preprint! We used fecal DNA #metabarcoding to assess the diet of #spottedhyenas and to answer some important wildlife management questions 🍪🦏🐄🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My 4th PhD chapter is in review & I decided to take the journal up on their offer to post a preprint for me. Here's our social-ecological assessment of spotted hyena movement in a developing landscape (including tolerance by people in our movement models): doi.org/10.22541/au.16…

Postdoc Job (pre)Alert! I'll be hiring a postdoc @CrabExeter to work on social networks, status, hurricanes & their relationship to age, aging, and survival. Starts as early as Jan '24. Ad and application link posted soon. In collab w/ @nyuprimatology @SMack_Lab @CayoSantiagoPR