Welcome!
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
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
Carl Zimmer wrote a feature in the Science section the March 4 2008 edition of the NYT. Read it on-line
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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
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
- The cast of (human) characters
- A Day in the Life of a Fisi Camper
- Ugali
- Individually ID-ing hyenas
- The Other Residents of Our Camp
- BBC comes to Kenya
- Juvenile hyenas at play
- Welcoming the wildebeest!
- Returning to the Mara
- New research station
- Moss guards her dead cub
- Lion-hyena fight photographed by MSU student Brittany Gunther
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