Jessy Patterson
Looking beyond the light: how does artificial lighting at waterholes affect mammal behaviour?
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about one of my PhD dissertation chapters on carnivore diets. A few weeks ago, we kicked off data...
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Update from the field
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jul 11
- 3 min
Crouching lion & coursing hyaenas: Which one zebras are more afraid of?
Predators and their prey have complex relationships that are influenced by a range of factors. Each predator species has its own...
Dipanjan Naha
- Jun 22
- 4 min
To cross or not to cross? The effects of fences around Etosha on large carnviore movement.
Fencing represents one of the most common linear infrastructures in the world and is used for a variety of reasons, including wildlife...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Gone with the wind: How wind speed affects Bat-eared foxes foraging activities
Not all carnivores are big and dangerous to work with. Some are just furry little things with big ears, wandering around looking for...
Josephine Amwaalwa
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Big birds with even bigger personalities
The Kori bustard, Ardeotis kori, and the Secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius, are the world’s heaviest flying bird and the world’s...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Aug 22, 2022
- 2 min
Life & death on a roll: dung beetles and honey badgers
Sometimes we come upon curious things while working in the field. It happened a few weeks ago when we noticed strange looking spherical...
ORC Student
- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
A noisy business: listening to rock hyraxes on Ongava
Wildlife produces a lot of sound. From insects to mammals, including fish and birds, auditory communication –signals emitted through the...
William Versfeld
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
The only Empress moth in the bush...
All living organisms go through stages of growth and reproduction. The emperor moth does its growing and reproducing in remarkable ways....
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
When the rain gives you wings...
Every year after the first significant rains, we are witnesses to one of Nature's fantastic shows: the flight of termites. This is the...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Queen takes King: dynamic interactions between spotted hyaenas and lions.
Spotted hyaenas have been traditionally thought to be only a lowly scavenger, stealing from lion kills and being subordinate to them. But...
John Mendelsohn
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
The battle of Cain and Abel
Astonishing bloody battles play out in the nests of several species of eagles, herons, boobies, pelicans and certain other large birds....
John Mendelsohn
- Oct 8, 2020
- 1 min
A balancing act – figuratively and literally
Life has been tough for Ongava’s animals and plants during this year's extraordinary drought, the worst since 1980 and 1981. We expect...
Florian Weise
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Cheetah Marking Trees on Ongava
Namibia is well known for harbouring about 25% of the remaining global cheetah population. Given the healthy lion and spotted hyaena...
Florian Weise
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Wildlife Facebook
Most large mammals enjoy a good scratch, rhinos especially after a mud bath. To find out more about this behaviour, we video-monitored a...
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