Montana State University  MSU grad student returns to African
bush to learn, serve  January 28, 2010 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU
News Service  Paul Schuette, left, and Scott Creel place a radio
collar on a lion for research they are conducting in southern
Kenya. (Photo courtesy of Paul Schuette).   High-Res Available
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994-4571 BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University graduate student
who studies wildlife in the African bush has a box seat at an
exotic parade.  Lions, baboons, spotted hyenas and warthogs pass
by the cameras that Paul Schuette set up around his research
area in southern Kenya. So do elephants, ostriches and secretary
birds. Women carrying bundles of sticks walk by the cameras, as
do Maasai herders.  "Lions and hyenas share the same areas with
people and livestock," said Schuette, a doctoral student in
ecology. "It's really interesting to see how there's kind of a
spatial and temporal shift."  Now in his third field season,
Schuette lives in