Notes From Kenya: MSU Hyena Research

Michigan State University students in the Holekamp Lab blog about their experiences in Kenya, research on spotted hyenas and adventures in the field.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Did Someone Say Provisioning?

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Spotted hyena moms do sometimes bring food back to the den to get their cubs used to eating meat early on in their lives. Considering meat a...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Population explosion?

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The Talek West clan is the largest it has ever been right now, after a winter-long baby boom. We suspect the recent baby boom was fueled by ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

The queen is dead.

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On the night of 12 April, 2011, the alpha female of the Talek West clan, Murphy, was killed near the den, along with her constant male escor...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Welcome to the world!

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Tracy and Brian and I were driving home from a foray this morning into the territory of the Mara River clan, when we stumbled upon a female...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

31 March 2011...still a bit late

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I am not claiming that I experience an acute sense of awareness either to reality or some state of elevated artistic appreciation at 5:45 ...
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Serena Camp

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23 March 2011 4:30 in the morning and fast approaching the time we collectively (I mean both myself and the other RA, Meg) gather at the l...

20 March 2011

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As I may have mentioned it has been raining here quite a bit, which is fairly annoying for two reasons.  First it means that my struggling ...

14 March 2011

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My name is Zach Laubach and through a fortunate sequence of events I have I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday the 12 th of March, to w...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

Hierarchy, interrupted?

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RBC is the current (?) alpha female of North clan. She's a tough girl alright, when she has to be, but her personality leaves much to b...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Baby Boom

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We live exciting lives, us hyena researchers. Chasing carnivores across the African savanna, witnessing the couple-second transition of an...
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