Check out this new story by Eli Strauss about Waffles the Hyena who became Queen in the new Wild Animals Podcast. You can listen on your podcast app or use this link naturalsciences.org/research-colle…

Happy to announce that Waffles is still indeed around and reproducing at the ripe age of 16+ years. Pictured is her latest cub, Spring Valley Maple 💕

It’s World #Hyena Day! Pictured is SNUG, the matriarch of Mara Hyena Project South Clan and star of our big collaring project 👑

It's #HyenaDay which means I have to share cute hyena media! Throwback to 2016 Happy Zebra clan with O'Malley and Mandrake (tiny cubs) getting up to some shenanigans before Toothless (big orange cub) joins the fray. All carnivores love a good game of "bite your face" Mara Hyena Project

Congratulations to Campbell Melton, one of the winners of the Outstanding Academic Achievement and Promise in Zoology award! In addition to working as a student in our lab, Campbell presented a poster at UURAF and attended the 2022 BEAM study abroad program in Kenya. Congrats! ✨

Congratulations to Rebecca Fisher, one of the winners of the Outstanding Academic Achievement and Promise in Zoology award! In addition to working as a student in our lab, Rebecca presented at UURAF on the effects of livestock grazing on carnivore trends in Kenya. Congrats! ✨

Did I ever tell you about that time we came across a fresh elephant carcass on the border of two #hyena territories? A 📷 thread 🧵 * These photos contain blood, a dead elephant, and the circle of life *

Join the Mara Hyena Project tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Safari Room to learn about 30+ years of studying wild spotted hyenas, including human-wildlife conflict, habitat management, and what role research can play in their conservation. bit.ly/3WeRkra

Congratulations to Kayla Fowler, winner of the Karl. A. Stiles and James W. Butcher Award! Kayla spent the past semester at our field site in Kenya, where she had the opportunity to assist with research such as the darting of KNIN (pictured here!). Congrats! ✨

New paper alert MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social MSU Mara Hyena Project: After inheriting social status from mom, hyenas decline in rank over their lives📉—not by being overtaken, but because of the combination of demographic turnover + rank inheritance (1/6) doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

🚨Eli Strauss Universität Konstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social uses the amazing long-term data set on Mara Hyena Project to model how demographic turnover contributes to #hierarchy dynamics, and how social #inheritance modifies these effects in spotted #hyenas 10.1098/rstb.2022.0308🧵(7/n)

For #hyenas, inherited power is no laughing matter: new study shows that after inheriting social status from mom, every member of a hyena clan, except the top-ranking queen👑, faces a lifetime of decreasing social status mpg.de/20515992/0626-… Eli Strauss MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚨Field work position🚨 The Mara Hyena Project is looking for two research assistants to start year-long field positions in January 2025. Join our team and contribute to our long-term study on hyena behavior and ecology! Application review will start Aug 20th