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
Author: Grace Shore Banks
Leakey Foundation Research Grant Awarded to PhD student Rhianna Drummond-Clarke
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
‘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
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