Run by the Kalahari Research Trust and directed by Marta Manser with Tim Clutton-Brock as co-director, the KRC is a well-established leading research base in Southern Africa. With its long-standing history and continuous long-term data across several projects, the KRC supports research projects testing challenging and diverse hypotheses. Research programs focus on subjects within evolutionary biology, animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, population demography, eco-physiology, epidemiology, and population genetics across several species.
Meerkats are among the best studied cooperatively breeding mammals. The Kalahrai Meerkat Project is the largest and longest running project at the KRC.
Take a look at the KRC Projects for wild and captive mole-rat research
Learn more about the Cape ground squirrel research projects at KRC.
Click here to find out more about yellow mongoose projects.
A unique and distinguishing aspect of much of the research at the KRC is the capability to study at both an individual and population level across species. There are few limits to what can be studied, and several territories or home ranges of a single species can be found within or overlapping the study site. Many animal species are habituated to close human presence. There is great respect and understanding among researchers for other study species, and this can benefit habituation greatly. There is the capability of studying natural interspecies interactions of co-existing species, expanding detailed investigations to the community level.