The Secret Language of Meerkats
The April 2025 issue of National Geographic (Germany) highlights the research of Prof. Marta Manser on the complex vocal behavior of meerkats. Link to the article (in German)
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Collective Behaviour Field Course at KRC
For the past two years, the KRC has hosted the Collective Behaviour Field Course, a program organised and funded by the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. This immersive course brings South African master’s students to the KRC, exposing them to cutting-edge…
Best Student Presentation at Oppenheimer Research & Conservation Conference
Congratulations to Chanel Rampartab, a PhD student from the University of Witwatersrand, for winning Best Student Presentation at the 13th Oppenheimer Research & Conservation Conference 2024! Her talk was entitled “How small diurnal mammals cope with heat and cold in the Kalahari: A study of ambient heat load, animal behaviour…
Hothouse Earth
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Planet Digial / Triggered by Motion
Channel 5 starts screening the follow up Meerkat Manor series, filmed on our meerkats
Watch here
BBC radio interview: Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution
listen to the interview here
Do you wish to follow the stories of the other meerkat groups at the Kalahari Research Centre?
The river was flowing through the project!!!
Rainy season 2020/2021 at KRC
Collective Behaviour Field Course at KRC
For the past two years, the KRC has hosted the Collective Behaviour Field Course, a program organised and funded by the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. This immersive course brings South African master’s students to the KRC, exposing them to cutting-edge…
Best Student Presentation at Oppenheimer Research & Conservation Conference
Congratulations to Chanel Rampartab, a PhD student from the University of Witwatersrand, for winning Best Student Presentation at the 13th Oppenheimer Research & Conservation Conference 2024! Her talk was entitled “How small diurnal mammals cope with heat and cold in the Kalahari: A study of ambient heat load, animal behaviour…
Hothouse Earth
Watch here
Planet Digial / Triggered by Motion
Channel 5 starts screening the follow up Meerkat Manor series, filmed on our meerkats
Watch here
BBC radio interview: Tim Clutton-Brock on meerkats, red deer and evolution
listen to the interview here
