@HyenaProject

We study the behavior + ecology of the Ngorongoro spotted hyenas. Since 1996. #HyenaFacts #HyenaOfTheDay #FemaleOrMale Tweets by Drs Eve Davidian & Oliver Höner

 @IZWBerlin & @visitngorongoro
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Joined October 2015
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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/resear…
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“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
In a river feeding on a carcass, with three vultures perched on a branch over the water doing the same, a hyena shakes and a halo of sprayed watter from its wet fur surrounds it's head.

ALT In a river feeding on a carcass, with three vultures perched on a branch over the water doing the same, a hyena shakes and a halo of sprayed watter from its wet fur surrounds it's head.

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Sam Ellis@Samellisq13 Mar 2024
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/s41586-0…
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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 )
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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!⏰
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National Geographic TV
@NatGeoTV7 Nov 2023
All hail the queens of the wilderness. Queens, narrated by @ImAngelaBassett, premieres March 4 on National Geographic.
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Josh Firth@JoshAFirth16 Feb 2024
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-eve…
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Ecological Dynamics@EcoDynIZW25 Jan 2024
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.
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Massimo
@Rainmaker197317 Jan 2024
Seals sleep underwate for about 10 minutes at a time during deep, 30-minute dives. Sometimes they hold kelp to avoid drifting away. [📹 michaelboyyd]
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Lauren Brent@ljnbrent27 Oct 2023
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/a…
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Lauren Brent@ljnbrent27 Oct 2023
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_webre… More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Lauren Brent@ljnbrent27 Oct 2023
Currently recruiting a new Postdoc and a PhD student to work in @CRABexeter on social networks – posts on the two opportunities in the 🧵
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WildCRU, Oxford@WildCRU_Ox25 Oct 2023
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
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Arjun Dheer@ArjDheer24 Oct 2023
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/10.1101/…

DNA metabarcoding reveals limited consumption of livestock and black rhinoceros by spotted hyenas...

The diet of large carnivores is of great interest to conservation managers, as it can reveal the extent of human-carnivore conflict and the impact of carnivores on species of high conservation...

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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.16978843…
A spotted hyena does "downward facing hyena" to cross under a parallel wire fence.

ALT A spotted hyena does "downward facing hyena" to cross under a parallel wire fence.

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Lauren Brent@ljnbrent12 Oct 2023
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
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ISBE2024@ISBE202428 Sep 2023
One year to go until we welcome you to Melbourne, Australia, for #ISBE2024! 29 Sep - 4 Oct 2024 Call for abstracts opening soon! Lock in the date and register your interest for further information at isbe2024.com @BehavEcol m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGq-NU…
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Ecological Dynamics@EcoDynIZW25 Sep 2023
We offer a free workshop on Capture-Mark-Recapture Analysis in R (15 participants, 5-8 Dec 23, @IZWBerlin). For more details, see: leibniz-izw-akademie.com/sem…
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Tobit Dehnen@Tobit_Dehnen23 Sep 2023
Our most recent work on reproduction and dominance dynamics in vulturine guineafowl, with a sprinkling of agent-based modelling of hierarchy inference methods, is now out as a preprint! 🪺➡️📉&📈: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @Brendah_Nyagah @DamienFarine @NeeltjeBoogert
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Molecular Ecology@molecology6 Sep 2023
Advancing non-invasive Wildlife Genetic Monitoring! @LarissaSArantes et al. dive into RADseq scalability to harness the power of 🧬 from hyena💩 Conquer degradation and contamination & gain preprocess insights💪 @HyenaProject @IZWberlin @mazzonijc doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13…
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