Description The Kalahari Meerkat Project is a long-term field project investigating the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of cooperative breeding. We are looking for volunteer field assistants to spend one year at our study site in the South African Kalahari Desert, collecting behavioural data on our habituated meerkat population. We offer our volunteers extensive training in field- and data skills such as animal handling, radio-tracking, observing animals in the wild and working with databases. Accommodation, food and a small living allowance will be provided, and we will contribute €300 towards travel expenses following successful completion of the 12 month field season. We also offer a limited number of full travel stipends for applicants from the African continent.