Open to UK, EU, and international applicants.
Background: Many mammals regularly use burrows as resting sites,
predation refuges, and breeding dens. Burrows also aid thermoregulation
by buffering extreme temperature fluctuations, making them vital as
mammals adjust to a changing world. Despite the crucial
functions burrows fulfil, we still know little about how their
architecture influences their value as shelters and nurseries, and how
animals interact with their subterranean environment. This exciting,
multi-disciplinary, technology-driven PhD aims to clarify
how the structure of breeding and sleeping burrows affects the lives of
their occupants, using an exceptional long-term study of wild Kalahari
meerkats (Suricata suricatta).
Full details and application portal available here:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doctorate/phd-mapping-the-manor-burrow-architecture-and-its-consequences-in-wild-kalahari-meerkats-cramdu26biolvh
Application deadline: 30th April
Questions? Contact Dom Cram d.cram@uea.ac.uk