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Aardwolf vs. Jackal
#### Today I’m excited to bring you a guest post by UMN undergraduate Peter Williams. Peter conducted independent research in the Lion Lab through the University of Minnesota’s directed research...
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Earth Wolf
### Today’s post is a guest post from Lora Orme, an undergraduate conducting directed research with us at the University of Minnesota. ### Often mistaken for a hyena, the aardwolf (whose name means...
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Looking for Leopards
Today’s guest blogger is Lucy Hughes, an undergraduate working with us since “Serengeti Live” (Snapshot’s predecessor). Lucy lived and worked on a private nature reserve in South Africa for four years,...
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Bat-eared Fox
Today’s post is a guest post from Lora Orme, an undergraduate conducting directed research with us at the University of Minnesota. The bat-eared fox is most notable for the feature in its namesake –...
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What used to be the “lion lab”
## Today’s guest post is from Jessica Timmons, a University of Minnesota undergraduate who has volunteered with the Lion Project since 2010 — before we even dreamed of working with Zooniverse to create...
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Brown Hyena
Today’s guest blogger is Lucy Hughes, an undergraduate working with us since “Serengeti Live” (Snapshot’s predecessor). Lucy lived and worked on a private nature reserve in South Africa for four years,...
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A Snapshot, on Snapshot Serengeti
Today’s guest blog is by Chris Egert, a reporter and anchor with KSTP 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS in Minneapolis/St. Paul. If you regularly read this blog, you know that there are some very hard working people...
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SuPer Qt, the Super Cute Lion
#### Today’s guest post is from Daniel Rosengren, one of the full-time field researchers on the Serengeti Lion Project. #### The prettiest lion born in our study area lately got the code name “SPQ”....
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Caracal
Today’s post is a guest post from Lora Orme, an undergraduate conducting directed research with us at the University of Minnesota. Hailing from regions of Africa as well as India, the Middle East, and...
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Gail, Garth or Gerta? Cataloguing the giraffes of the Serengeti
Today’s guest post is written by Megan Strauss, a researcher at the University of Minnesota. She runs the Serengeti Giraffe Project. If you had visited the lion research house between 2008 and 2010, in...
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Spot that leopard!
Today’s guest blogger is Lucy Hughes. Lucy lived and worked on a private nature reserve in South Africa for four years, carrying out field research that included a camera-trap study into the reserve’s...
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Safari Phil Goes to the Serengeti
Today’s guest post is by Phil Thiesse, the KSTP video photojournalist who shot the footage for the TV report on Snapshot Serengeti and the Lion Project. I am a television photojournalist from Minnesota...
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All in the name of science
Today’s guest blogger is Lucy Hughes. Lucy lived and worked on a private nature reserve in South Africa for four years, carrying out field research that included a camera-trap study into the reserve’s...
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Stuck. Part 1.
Stuck. Surrounded by lions. Please come. This is not a text message that you’d necessarily expect to get on your cell phone…unless you work as a lion researcher in the Serengeti like Ali does....
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Stuck. Part 2.
##### Today’s post is a continuation of last week’s adventure, written by Patrik Dousa. ##### When we left off the story from last week, all of us in the Serengeti team were out deep in the sour tern...
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Close Encounters
## Margaret and I are both recovering from a crazy week at the Ecological Society of America conference and the incredibly successful Save Snapshot Serengeti campaign, so we’re posting a fantastic...
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The short and happy life of a Serengeti lion
### Last week Craig spoke for Cafe Scientifique about lions and shared the research that Lion Project has been conducting for the last 45 years. Check out the video here. Peter and Faith, UMN...
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The sound of silence?
## Today’s guest post is from our moderator and regular contributor Lucy Hughes. ## What does silence mean to you? Maybe it’s that moment at the end of the day when the telephones stop ringing and the...
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The lost lions of the Transect Steady pride
### Today we’ve got a guest post by our very own Daniel Rosengren, lion tracker (& photographer) extraordinaire. ### It started with some mysterious footprints around the Loliondo Kopjes. There...
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Honey badger:1 chicken:0
Honey badger don’t care Have you ever seen the look on a dogs face when confronted with a cat that fights back? There is utter confusion about his role in life, “hang on a minute that cat is way...
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