Finding the Unexpected

Updated: Dec 22, 2021

Placing camera traps in unusual places can go one of two way: an  interesting find or a great disappointment. Camera traps were placed  alongside a latrine used by a Kaokoveld rock hyrax colony, found on Read more

19°S: Space use by spotted hyaenas

Updated: Dec 17, 2021

If you are a large carnivore enthusiast, you probably have heard that they are wide ranging species requiring a lot of space to establish their home ranges countless times. But how much space is “a Read more

Queleas murmurations at Andersson’s

Updated: Dec 22, 2021

Have you ever heard about queleas? Chances are you did hear about these huge flocks of small, red-billed birds destroying crops and being eradicated as pest? These are red-billed queleas (Quelea quelea), small Read more

Where do you find what you are searching for?… In the last place you look, of course!

In this day and age, plenty of information is available online, thanks to the well-established electronic system. In Namibia, old and young researchers have greatly contributed towards the Environmental Information System (EIS, http://www.the-eis.com/). Even though this database hosts Read more

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 populations on Ongava, however, cheetahs face a hard time here and occur only in small numbers. All the Read more