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Author: Grace Shore Banks

Kruger National Park’s Rhino losses Mirror continental African trend

By Grace Shore Banks | 13 December 2022

Professor Keith Somerville, DICE, comments on the newly-released annual report by South African National Parks detailing rhino and elephant losses over the last year.  The … Read more

Leakey Foundation Research Grant Awarded to PhD student Rhianna Drummond-Clarke

By Grace Shore Banks | 13 December 2022

Phd student Rhianna Drummond-Clarke has been awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her project entitled ‘Ecological drivers of bipedalism and arboreality in savanna-dwelling chimpanzees’. … Read more

The BioAnth Seminar Series; Masticatory energetics, food mechanics and human evolution!

By Grace Shore Banks | 24 November 2022

Researcher Adam van Casteren will be presenting in person on his area of expertise -physical interactions between ecology and feeding morphology in primates. Adam van … Read more

Dragon’s Den: Training to tender for a Research Project with the Green Infrastructure Framework

By Grace Shore Banks | 10 November 2022

This interdisciplinary CEAS and KISS PhD training Workshop examined what it actually means to be a consultant based on a real-life call for tender – … Read more

Conservation Biologist Steve Allain wins Prestigious National Wildlife Award

By Grace Shore Banks | 09 November 2022

The National Biodiversity Network awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions adults and young people are making to wildlife recording and data sharing, which is … Read more

Conflict between humans, jackals, golden wolves and honey badgers.

By Grace Shore Banks | 03 November 2022

Honorary Professor Professor Keith Somerville‘s latest title ‘Jackals Golden Wolves, And Honey Badgers – Cunning, Courage and Conflict with Humans’ is published by Routledge/Earthscan in their … Read more

I get by with a little help from 150 friends.

By Grace Shore Banks | 26 October 2022

According to Dunbar’s number theory there’s a 150-person limit to the number of individuals with whom we can maintain meaningful social relationships, known as Dunbar’s … Read more

Wild Bond: which of the famous character’s classic traits have precedents in the Animal Kingdom?

By Grace Shore Banks | 26 October 2022

In the first episode of this BBC radio series Dr Brandon Wheeler discusses what animal’s possess the inherent ability to deceive. Everyone’s favourite spy has … Read more

Rewilding: a Major Theme at the 2022 Amphibian and Reptile Group UK Conference.

By Grace Shore Banks | 13 October 2022

‘This weekend I was delighted to attend the South East ARG Regional Meeting at the Darwin Conference Centre, here are the University of Kent. The … Read more

I wanted to do what I could to help: volunteering for Ukraine

By Grace Shore Banks | 05 October 2022

During the summer break Charlotte Long travelled to Poland to volunteer with a charity matching Ukranian Refugees with British hosts. ‘You will have heard about … Read more

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