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Established in 2016, the Vulturine Guineafowl Project aims to understand the interplay between collective behaviour and the environment. The project was funded by an ERC Starting Grant ECOLBEH (2020-2025) and is now funded by an SNSF Ambizione Fellowship awarded to Charlotte Christensen.
Approaches
Approaches
We combine daily visual observations of group membership and social interactions
with large-scale deployment of high-resolution GPS tags across all groups
to gain a data spanning from individual to group to population over time
Figure 1 from Papageorgiou et al. 2019 Current Biology
all while studying the birds in a rich ecosystem containing a full suite of heterospecifics and predators.
who is working on this project?
who is working on this project?
The project is run by A/Prof Damien Farine and Dr. Charlotte Christensen. It's hosted many amazing students and research assistants over the years, ably led by Brendah Nyaguthii (2018-2023) and Sikenykeny Kipkorir (2023-current).
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