Dr Dominic Cram

Dr Cram has done worked on foraging partnerships between humans and honeyguides in sub-Saharan Africa, principally Mozambique. Honeyguides do as their name suggest: once summoned (using a specific local call), they guide honey hunters to a beehive. Once the humans have harvested the honey, they leave wax for the honeyguides to eat. There are many interesting dimensions to this relationship, and Dr Cram and his colleagues have worked to improving our understanding of the honeyguide part of the relationship.

Dr Cram has worked on the behavioural ecology of meerkats, and a project on hostile meerkat intergroup interactions. Further research planned to work with colleagues both here in Cambridge and his home institution on meerkat territorial behaviour.