
New grant!
I'm pleased to announce that post-doc Yifu Wang, Hannah and the team have been awarded a grant by Save Pangolins to investigate use of...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow Vacancy
I'm really excited that there's a vacancy for a Post-doc in the group. We want someone to work on the Hong Kong Wild Boar Project, but...

New paper on elephant vocalisations
Our study on individual variation in rumbles in wild adult male African elephants is out now in PeerJ. Studies have shown that adult male...

New lab twitter and instagram pages
I'm really excited that with the help of two students, Natalie and Ananya, we now have lab twitter and instagram pages. This will allow...

Wild boars in Hong Kong
It might be hard to picture presence of wild boars (Sus scrofa) in a highly urbanized city such as Hong Kong. However, wild boars are...

Do African male elephants have distinct voices?
We have been analysing African elephant vocalisations to determine whether they could be used by males to recognise one another. African...

Life off the Leash- Tourism elephants at Tiger Tops
Tiger Tops Tharu Lodge is where our lab currently conducts all our Asian elephant field research. Located in Southern Nepal on the border...

Studying the relationship between captive elephants and their handlers
We have been conducting exciting new research on human-elephant interactions in captive settings. RA Sagarika Phalke explains. The Asian...

Book "Elephants" published
My book was published on the 2nd April and I'm really excited to be able to share it with people. It's about the lives of elephants, my...

ICCB 2019 in Kuala Lumpur
We had a great Society for Conservation Biology congress in Malaysia. PhD student Teresa Santos presented her research as a poster on...