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DIGS Goes Green

Being a Michigan State University Spartan myself, I'm not sure I've ever been able to get our hyenas out here to shout "go green" to us (in response to us shouting "go white," of course). However this morning an adult female in our North clan DIGS got just about as close as she could to going green. Check it out!

New Den In Happy Zebra

We finally found the den in our happy zebra clan that has been missing for the last few weeks! Check out all of the cubs that greeted us upon our arrival.

Also-- please consider helping to support our research by donating here: https://microryza.com/projects/spotted-hyenas-an-indicator-species. If we don't make it to our goal of $2500 in the time frame, we don't get any of the funds pledged. So every bit helps!

Asante sana!

Microryza and an Opportunity to Help

Dear Hyena Fans,

The hyena project is getting involved in crowd sourcing ourfunding once more, and we’d like to ask for your help! We’ve created a research page with the help of Microryza. By visiting our research page, you not only get to see some hyena clips, you can also help us out!

Some hyenas social sniffing a stalk.

Money has been tight the last few months, and I’m hoping to get some funds to support my PhD research, and the current research taking place in our lab. I’ve blogged about my research before (e.g. A Sentinel for African Ecosystems and Text Messaging with Hyenas), so feel free to check out those posts for more information.

To help out, please consider donating to our project page at Microryza. If we can’t get up to our goal ($2,500US) in the time frame (2 months remaining), unfortunately we don’t get any of the funds pledged in support. This small amount of money will go a long way in our research, so please consider helping us out!

Thanks a lot! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to post comments to the blog or email me at greend31@msu.edu.

Hope you’re having a great start to the New Year.

Dave

Short Rains and Collaring

Although the short rains came a bit late this year, they have still made it hard for us to get out of camp and do hyena research. That being said, we made it out 2 mornings ago and were on a quest to find the last hyena in the Mara Triangle destined to receive a GPS collar. Her name is JAVA, and she may be the new queen in one if our clans in the Mara Triangle.

Not sure how it worked out...but we found her and the collar deployment was a success! We weren't expecting to find her because she hasn't been spending too much time away from the den (she has a cub that's 3 months old).

We're very excited to monitor her movement and space use with this super cool technology.

We'll keep you posted!

Newborn Zebra

Check out this footage I got of a newborn zebra here in the Mara. It was fun watching it take its first steps (and subsequent spills)!

Snake in Camp

Gotta love those first 5 minutes after encountering a snake in camp-- scrambling through the field guide to know just how far you need to stay away from it.

Luckily this time around it was only a Battersby green snake.

Don't worry, it's not hatari (dangerous).

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