Recent Final Year Students
Fourth year students in the BEES department undertake a comprehensive final year research project with an academic supervisor. Over the last 10 years over 50 final year research projects have been completed at Fota Wildlife Park. For more informtation on some of our recent fourth year student projects, please click a link below.
2021 - 2022
Bridin Foster - A behavioural study of Drill monkeys at Fota Wildlife Park
Michael Feeney - Asiatic lion behaviour at Fota Wildlife Park
Rowan Collier - Enclosure use and behaviour of two different taxa (spider monkeys and flamingos) at Fota Wildlife Park
Calvin Jordan - A behavioural study of the integration of a ring-tailed lemur group
Aoife Callanan - The use of environmental enrichment in hoofstook at Fota Wildlife Park
David Twomey - A behavioural study of noturnal giraffe behaviour and enclosure use at Fota Wildlife Park
Rory Lucy - Is aggression linked to diet in Siamang gibbons at Fota Wildlife Park
2020 - 2021
Sarah O'Donoghue - Assessing visitor effects on Aves at Fota Wildlife Park
Juliette Hennessy - Terriforial advertising by captive Asiatic lions at high latitude: Consistent with known patterns of natural behaviour in the tropics and subtropics?
Link to Asiatic lion territorial vocalisations at Fota Wildlife Park
2019 - 2020
Lydia Elliot - A behavioural study of drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus) at Fota Wildlife Park LE_FYP
2018 - 2019
Daniel Moloney - Comparative behavioral analysis of Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica) at Fota Wildlife Park DM_FYP