RESEARCH

Briana Abrahms, PhD Candidate, University of California-Berkeley (Supervisor: Dr. Justin Brashares) As global change leads to increasingly rapid habitat alteration, research advancing our understanding of animal movement is needed to aid conservation planning. Despite...

Lindsey Rich, PhD, Virginia Tech University, United States (Supervisor Dr Marcella Kelly).  Lindsey's research aims to identify and implement a sustainable method for monitoring carnivore communities across northern Botswana, employing spoor and camera trap surveys....

Kasim Rafiq, PhD student, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Kasim is a PhD student affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University, UK.  Kasim has worked with the BPCT in the past, as a research assistant in 2013 and then as a Master’s student in 2015.  Kasim...

Despite being the most abundant member of the large predator guild, the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) is perhaps the least understood predator within the Okavango ecosystem. Previous work has shown that hyaenas exhibit enormous flexibility in certain aspects of...

Being the only felid in which both sexes are social, lions are likely to have evolved a range of communicative signals that allow them to both coordinate their activities with group members, and also to defend their territories from rival lions. Geoff's research...

Dispersal of individuals is a fundamental process governing the dynamics of socially and spatially structured populations. There is, however, a mismatch between our understanding of the complexity of dispersal and our representation of dispersal in population dynamic...