Hyena blogging, live from the Serengeti

Holekamp hyena fight

Earlier this year I wrote in the New York Times about the remarkable minds of hyenas. The evolution of their brains appears to have followed the same pattern ours have: an increasingly social life drives the expansion of some parts of their brains. This research is the work of Kay Holekamp, a zoologist at Michigan State University who has spent many years observing hyenas in East Africa. And now, continuing a trend that should strike fear into the heart of any science writer, another of my subjects has started a blog of her own. Notes from Kenya chronicles the adventures of Holekamp and her colleagues in their new field season watching spotted hyenas. (The picture above is from a recent spat they had with a lion.) Check it out.

July 14th, 2008 10:10 AM by Carl Zimmer in Brains, Link Love | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “Hyena blogging, live from the Serengeti”

1. Sven DiMilo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

the remarkable minds of hyenas. The evolution of their brains appears to have followed the same pattern ours have: an increasingly social life drives the expansion of some parts of their brains.

Crows, too!
2. Hyena_69 Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 8:40 am

go~!!!!!! go Hyenas !!! kill it !!!
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