by Claire Spottiswoode | Jan 2, 2021
Eliupendo Laltaika is back in Moshi after successfully completing his Masters fieldwork in northern Tanzania, studying the human-honeyguide mutualism across four honey-hunting cultures (the Maasai, Ndorobo, Hadzabe and Sonjo people). Laltaika overcame many logistical...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Dec 19, 2020
Claire and Jessica, together with colleagues Dr Chima Nwaogu and Dr Gabriel Jamie, carried out pilot fieldwork at Honeywood Farm alongside Grootvadersbosch Forest in the southern Cape, South Africa. We were delighted to catch several greater and lesser honeyguides and...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Dec 4, 2020
Dom Cram and Jessica van der Wal shared their latest honeyguide research in two presentations at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Virtual Winter Meeting. Dom’s talk was entitled “Produce or scrounge? Correlates and consequences of cooperating...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Sep 8, 2020
Eliupendo Laltaika gave a talk on his career journey and conservation work in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, as part of the Leadership for Conservation in Africa seminar series. Laltaika gives us great insight into his journey from killing wildlife for retaliation...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Sep 5, 2020
Dr Jessica van der Wal gave a talk on honeyguide-human mutualism as part of a session on research at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, at Birdlife South Africa’s Virtual African Birdfair. Dr Gabriel Jamie gave a talk on mimicry in the parasitic finches...