Australasian Animal Studies Association

Urban Hyenas

Marcus Baynes-Rock is conducting research on the relationship between spotted hyenas and people in the town of Harar, Ethiopia. This research follows the lives of individual hyenas as they eke out an existence in an urban environment with the help of a local family that feeds them each night in front of a Muslim shrine. […]

Animal Emotions: do animals think and feel?

Marc Bekoff, Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado and a well known Animal Protection proponent, writes a regular blog across a number of issues – from the latest research on animals’ creativity to the slaughter of kangaroos in Australia. His first blog for 2011 has just been published: Leave […]