News just in!

October 2025

Emily Bennitt (co-investigator based at the Okavango Research Institute), Zarah Schwann and Clarissa Schill (PhD students) recently represented Project ANTELOPE at the SASSCAL 2.0 Science Conference held in Luanda, Angola from 7-9 October.

It has been a relatively productive couple of months, culminating in three new manuscripts being submitted for peer-review. If, for example, you're interested in how small mammals respond to an ephemeral food resource and increased predator presence, be sure to revisit this site for updates on manuscript progress.

September 2025

Paper accepted!

I am really excited by the news that Animal Behaviour has just accepted our manuscript!

More to follow...

July 2025

New paper published!

This took a while and is the product of a massive collaborative research project - Project LifePlan - aimed at describing global patterns of biodiversity. Here we present results from soundscape data collected in a standardised way from 139 study sites, each with a natural and disturbed sampling area, across 6 continents (excluding Antarctica). You can find the paper, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, here.

May 2025

Collaborators and I have selected a new MSc student to quantify not only shade use, but also the quality of the shade, that is used by different ungulate species. Our new student will be welcomed on this site soon.

April 2025

I spent ~ two weeks in Namibia's Zambezi Province (previously known as the Caprivi strip) with PhD students and collaborators from Namibia, Botswana, and Germany to recapture our study animals. Over the past 18 months our 10 lechwe, tsessebe, waterbuck and eland (40 animals overall) roamed freely throughout the Caprivi (also into Angola and Botswana) through a very harsh drought, regularly collecting movement, physiological and microclimate use data. These data will improve our understanding about the extent to which these antelope - with different water requirements, feeding behaviour, and movement patterns - are able to cope under rapidly changing conditions.