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Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) Yawning Jamie B. Tanner

Research in my laboratory focuses on mammalian behavioral development and its physiological substrates. My students and I are currently investigating how social, ecological, and endocrine variables interact during an individual's early development to influence its subsequent behavior and its reproductive success as an adult.

News

07/17/08
  
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07/15/08
Blog mentioned on the Discover website.
Carl Zimmer, the author of the New York Times article on hyenas writes a blog titled "Brains" for Discover Magazine. He gives our own blog a nice plug this week. Thanks Carl.
07/11/08
An MSU Special Report and new blog
MSU College of Natural Science produced a special report on hyenas and our hyena research.  We've started a new blog this summer, "Notes from Kenya," to chronicle our adventures in the field. Thanks to Michael Steger and others in the college for taking interest in our work and spreading the good word about hyenas.
07/10/08
New article in Nature, Van Horn et al. 2008

The article "Do female hyaenas choose mates based on tenure?" by Russ Van Horn, Heather Watts and Kay Holekamp appears in the "Brief Communications Arising" section of the 10 July edition of Nature magazine. Read it on-line

 

06/27/08
Former Student Jaime Tanner awarded the UMass Darwin Fellow
Read more on OEB's news page http://www.bio.umass.edu/oeb/news. Congratulations Jaime!
06/25/08
Fission-fusion paper, Smith et al, is available on-line.
The paper titled "Social and ecological determinants of fission-fusion dynamics in the spotted hyaena" appears in the on-line version of Animal Behaviour. Read it here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.001
04/26/08
Smithsonian Magazine Feature Article
Steve Kemper of Smithsonian magazine wrote a feature article for the May 2008 edition. Read it on-line at

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hyena.html

03/05/08
New York Times features our hyena research

Carl Zimmer wrote a feature in the Science section the March 4 2008 edition of the NYT. Read it on-line

02/01/08
Press Releases

The National Science Foundation features our research

 

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Learn All About Hyenas from the IUCN Hyena family conservation website, sponsered and maintained by my lab

 

 

 

 

Kay E. Holekamp

Professor, Department of Zoology,
Program in Ecology, Evolution, Biology & Behavior (EEBB),
Michigan State University
B.A. Smith College, Northampton,MA
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, CA

holekamp@msu.edu

Mailing Address

303 Natural Science Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1115

Office Phone: (517) 432-3691
Laboratory Phone: (517) 353-3771
Department Fax: (517) 432-278

 

 

Field Notes from Kenya

 

Research Supported by

National Science Foundation nsv.gov Kenya Wildlife Service (logo)
MSU Zoology