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Caleb Bryce
Dec 2, 2017
CALLS OF THE WILD
The multitude of camp projects and fieldwork priorities have made for a busy last few months. But the gradually cooling weather is...
Dominik Behr
Sep 12, 2017
TRACKING DOWN A WILD DOG DEN
The winter months of June, July, and August mark the coldest period of the year in Northern Botswana. It is this cool period of the year...
Ed van Mourik
Aug 5, 2017
AD HOC AND OPPORTUNISTIC: OBSERVATIONS MOST EXTRAORDINARY
Notes from the field, 05June2017: On my dutiful way to collect SD cards from camera traps a few kilometres into a mopane woodland, I was...
Megan Claase
Jul 23, 2017
A (SAD) TALE OF TWO SISTERS
When you spend your time studying wild dogs, you cannot help but come to know them as individuals. The pack I spent most of my time with...
Dr. Peter Apps
Jun 27, 2017
BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST CAMERA TRAP CATCHES WORLD RECORD GROUP OF HONEY BADGERS
The Botswana Predator Conservation Trust uses camera traps to monitor the behaviour of large carnivores, and for the past five months we...
Dr. Peter Apps
Jun 10, 2017
ELEPHANTS SABOTAGE!
ELEPHANTS TRASHING OUR CAMERA TRAPS The big predators that BPCT works on are rare and elusive, and so we use camera traps to monitor...
Hugh Webster, PhD
May 1, 2017
RECORD RAIN
The rain started on the 14th November. It was the first rain since April and was a blessed relief. October had been brutally hot as usual...
Hugh Webster, PhD
Apr 3, 2017
EARTHQUAKE!
The whole structure of the tent began shaking strangely. Was anelephant pushing against one of the poles that support the deck onwhich...
BPC
Jun 1, 2016
PROTECTING ROOM TO ROAM
We now know that most of the world’s protected areas are too small to sustain healthy populations of large animals, which require a great...
Jessica Vitale
Nov 8, 2015
SOLVING THE PUZZLE
My first experience studying African large carnivores was as a research assistant for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT)...
Neil Jordan, PHD
Aug 14, 2015
SCARY-ASS COWS!
Although trophy hunting of African lions and leopards has been banned in Botswana for many years, still the killing of lions continues....
Hallie Walker, Field Research Assistant
May 12, 2015
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FIELD RESEARCH ASSISTANT
As a field research assistant, I am responsible for primary data collection and database maintenance. On a normal day I wake up just...
Lindsey Rich, MST
Sep 11, 2014
CREATURES THAT LURK IN THE NIGHT
Northern Botswana has an abundance of wildlife and one of the most diverse carnivore guilds in Africa. Hearing lions (Panthera leo)...
Neil Jordan, PHD
Jul 10, 2014
PREYING SOLITAIRE: KUBU’S STORY
“Kubu” is a lone African wild dog. On first thought, such a strange state of affairs clearly exonerates her – and any research data...
Krystyna Golabek, PHD
Jun 12, 2014
AFRICAN WILD DOGS MAKE THEIR MARK
The Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT) has been studying African wild dogs in Northern Botswana since 1989. Wild dogs are...
BPC
May 14, 2014
A DOZEN DOGS AND A BIG CAT; OBSERVATIONS OF HUNTING
Despite observing large carnivores on a daily basis, it’s still quite rare to see the entire process of a kill. Thick brush, fast-moving...
Neil Jordan, PHD
Oct 1, 2013
DOG DAYS
A white tail flashes out of the shade, momentarily painting an “S” sha pe on the dry grass canvas before falling abruptly back to earth....
Neil Jordan, PHD
Oct 1, 2013
Dog Days
A white tail flashes out of the shade, momentarily painting an “S” shape on the dry grass canvas before falling abruptly back to earth....
Jessica Vitale
Jun 14, 2013
WHEN FEMALE LIONS HAVE THEIR CUBS
I was lucky enough to join the BPCT as a research assistant at an ideal time, just as several of the female lions gave birth to their...
BPC
Apr 3, 2013
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
After getting the coordinates for Mankwe Pack, obtained by Tico by aerial tracking, I made my first attempt at sleeping out in the bush....
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