Current Honours cohort

Bachelor of Science Honours in Entomology


Joshua Joffe	Sophie Nyoni	Goratileone Oepeng
Microbial detoxification of Eucalyptus essential oils in the gut of Gonipterus sp. n. 2	Experimental evolution in a biocontrol system	The role of brood pheromones in inhibiting reproductive dominance in Apis mellifera scutellata workers	xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
Supervisor: Dr Almuth Hammerbacher	Supervisors: Prof. Brett Hurley, Prof. Bernard Slippers	Supervisors: Dr Fiona Mumoki, Prof. Abdullahi Yusuf, Prof. Christian Pirk, Prof. Robin Crewe

Bachelor of Science Honours in Wildlife Management


Quincy Augustine	Elna Davel	Alannah Grobler	Hamlet Maseko
Factors influencing power line roost selection of vultures in northern South Africaxx	The use of culverts by warthogs in the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve	The impact of seismic surveys on cetacean behaviour in South African waters	Bat food discrimination through resource selection
Supervisors: Dr Mark Keith, Dr Ryno Kemp	Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers, Dr Maartin Strauss, Dr Mark Keith	Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers, Jean Purdon, Dr Els Vermeulen	Supervisors: Dr Mark Keith, Dr Grant Hall


Karla Mieny	Rodney Naleba	Robyn Nelson	Daleen Steenkamp
The influence of megaherbivores on the seasonal diet of large herbivores in succulent karoo and fynbos biomes	Investigating key drivers of herbivore space use in arid protected areas	An assessment of the behavioural impact of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis) on indigenous birds in an urban setting	The effects of roads on bat diversity and activity
Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers, Prof. Jan Venter, Dr Christopher Brooke	Supervisors: Dr Mark Keith, Prof. Michael Somers, Prof. Jan Venter	Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers	Supervisors: Dr Mark Keith, Prof. Michael Somers, Dr Maartin Strauss


Tynika Tiribeni	Arno van Niekerk
The effects of lion pride structure on home ranges	Home ranges of leopard tortoises in a small urban fenced environment
Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers, Prof. Jan Venter, Prof. Herve Fritz	Supervisors: Prof. Michael Somers, Dr Mark Keith

Bachelor of Science Honours in Zoology


Shirel Braunstein	Giséle Cumming	Tiaan de Wet-Marais	Cleo Ferreira
Light intensity on the circadian rhythms of solitary mole- rats	Experimentally testing the link between thermoregulation and chronobiology in the Highveld mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae)	Are four populations of Chetia flaviventris taxonomically isolated?	Does dehorning influence the seasonal home range use of white rhinos?
Supervisors: Dr Marietjie Oosthuizen, Prof. Nigel Bennett	Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Bennett, Dr Daniel Hart, Dr PJ Jacobs	Supervisor: Dr Carel Oosthuizen	Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Shrader


Lisa Garner	Mila Geldenhuys	Megan Hutson	Jacqueline McTamney
An assessment of nudibranch diversity in Sodwana Bay, South Africa	Dietary and spatial niche overlap of Ross and Elephant seals in the South Atlantic Ocean	Faecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) concentrations as a measure of stress in impala (Aepyceros melampus) in response to an anthropogenic disturbance	Infectious personalities: A meta-analysis on whether animal personality predicts infection risk
Supervisor: Dr Carel Oosthuizen	Supervisors: Dr. Mia Wege, Prof. PJ Nico de Bruyn	Supervisor: Prof. Andre Ganswindt	Supervisor: Dr Heike Lutermann


Stuart Neilon	Nicole Robertson	Layla van Zyl	Juanita Wessels
Prevalence and diversity of haemoparasites in African Buffalo from the Kruger National Park	Assessing migration disruptions of South Africa's southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) using radiocarbon analysis	Does Anopheles funestus feeding frequency increase under artificial lighting used in households?	The role of the beak and unfeathered skin in thermoregulation in vultures
Supervisor: Prof. Armanda Bastos	Supervisors: Prof. Stephan Woodborne, Dr Els Vermeulen	Supervisor: Dr Bernard Coetzee	Supervisor: Prof. Andrew McKechnie


Dené Visser
The effect of pitfall trap size and configuration on sampling ant assemblages in grasslands, and the change in ant community over time
Supervisor: Prof. Mark Robertson

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