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Hyena Yoga and Participatory Adventures
For the past three months, I’ve been what I can only assume is the definition of a multidisciplinary researcher: super busy. With the addition of a whirlwind two month visit from one of my favorite...
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On Being Exotic
MZUNGU has followed me for my time here in Kenya and every other time I’ve lived in East Africa. It comes in the form of high-pitched screams trailing their Doppler effect through my car window as I...
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Life Finds a Way
Since last I wrote, my field work has come to an end and analysis has begun. It has been a multidisciplinary wild ride. I’ll stick with the ecology and behavior components of my research for this...
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using ecology to understand carnivore-livestock conflict
A group paper I led on using ecology to understand carnivore-livestock conflict and promote coexistence has just been published in Conservation Biology! Working with such inspiring, multidisciplinary...
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Black Mammalogists Week: Sep 13-19!
Black Mammalogists Week is coming up September 13th-19th and we are so excited! This idea was originally created by three Black mammalogists- myself, Rhiannon Kirton, and Rae Wynn-Grant, who wanted to...
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Life, uh, Finds a Way
In our recently published paper “Quantifying wildlife responses to conservation fencing in East Africa“, we developed a classification scheme to explore mammalian behaviors around the Lake Nakuru...
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I am pleased to announce that Mammals Week premieres this week, as one of eleven exciting weeks with Disney/National Geographic Explorer Academy Adventures! As a carnivore ecologist and a National...
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Understanding Perceived and Verified Human-Carnivore Conflict
My first participatory mapping chapter (and 3rd out of 4 dissertation chapters) was recently published in Frontiers in Conservation Science! Essentially, we found that observed & perceived...
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How to de-collar a spotted hyena
De-collaring a hyena is a lot harder than collaring a hyena. As part of my long-overdue (thanks, covid!) visit to Kenya, I wanted to attempt to de-collar the spotted hyenas that I had outfitted with...
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Help us to purchase our new collaring and community engagement vehicle!
Thank you to all of the supporters of our hyenas and communities project over the past several years. We have been so excited to work alongside community members, scientists, conservationists, and the...
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