Adam studies carnivores under 15 kg. He also leads the Laikipia Rabies Vaccination Campaign (LRVC) group-effort aimed at eradicating rabies in domestic dogs in the local communities around Mpala.

In Adam’s words: Rural communities, especially children, are at greatest risk of dog-mediated rabies in Kenya, where an estimated 2,000 people die of this disease every year, and yet these communities often receive the least attention when it comes to rabies control efforts. Through the LRVC we help to provide no-cost vaccinations of domestic dogs, the major reservoirs for human rabies cases in Kenya, to people with little or no access to rabies prevention measures, thereby protecting both the lives of the people and their canine companions that compose such an integral part of their pastoral culture.

Slender Mongoose Slender mongooses eat eggs by throwing them through their back legs at a rock or other hard object to break them open.

Common Genet Common genets share communal latrines with other genets, civets, and some mongoose species