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SUMMARY:A Hyena's Tale: 35 Years of On-the-Ground Research
DESCRIPTION:Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture\n\nThis talk takes audiences
  inside the world of one of Africa's most misunderstood predators — the 
 spotted hyena. Dr. Kay Holekamp draws on decades of field research in Keny
 a to reveal how early social\, ecological\, and hormonal experiences shape
  an individual hyena's behavior\, survival\, and reproductive success acro
 ss its lifetime. She explores the species' striking biological quirks — 
 including female-dominant social hierarchies and male-like female genitali
 a — and explains what these traits can teach us about the evolution of s
 ex differences\, intelligence\, and cooperation in mammals more broadly. T
 he talk also addresses the urgent conservation challenges facing large Afr
 ican carnivores and the innovative strategies being developed to protect t
 hem. \n\nDr. Kay Holekamp is a behavioral ecologist whose research focuses
  on mammalian behavioral development\, its physiological underpinnings\, a
 nd the socio-ecological forces that shape it. In 1988\, she co-founded the
  Mara Hyena Project in Kenya — one of the longest-running field studies 
 of wild carnivores in the world — which continues to investigate how ear
 ly-life experiences influence long-term fitness outcomes in free-living sp
 otted hyenas. Her work leverages the hyena's unique biology and complex so
 cial structure to test broad hypotheses about the evolution of intelligenc
 e\, sex differences\, and cooperative behavior in mammals. Dr. Holekamp is
  also a committed advocate for the conservation of large African carnivore
 s. \n\nThis lecture recording can be found on the Available Recordings p
 age approximately two business days after the event and will remain access
 ible for three weeks.
LOCATION: Sun Room\, Memorial Union
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