Acknowledgement example for research on meerkats at Kalahari Research Centre
This is an example of an acknowledgement section for studies that use long-term meerkat data from 2017-2024. Note that Zoo Zurich is only to be mentioned if data is included from January 2023 onwards.
Financial support for the long-term meerkat research has been provided by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (no. 742808, no. 294494 to T.C.-B); the Human Frontier Science Program (funding reference RGP0051/2017; RGP0051/2019); the University of Zurich to M.B.M.; the University of Cambridge to T.C.-B.; the Newton Trust; the MAVA Foundation; the Zoo Zurich; the Exekias foundation; and the Irene Staehelin foundation. We are grateful to the Kalahari Research Trust and the Kalahari Meerkat Project for access to facilities and habituated animals on the Kuruman River Reserve, and the surrounding farmers for permission to use their land. We thank the managers, volunteers, students, and researchers who have all contributed to the collection and curation of the long-term data over the decades; in particular, ………………… We thank the Mammal Research Institute and the ethics committee at Pretoria University for their support in logistics and ethics permits, as well as the Northern Cape Department of Environment and Nature Conservation for permission to conduct the research (FAUNA 0930/2022; …….). Long-term data collected within the course of this study fall under the permission of the ethics committee of Pretoria University and the Northern Cape Conservation Service, South Africa (NAS003/2022………….) and were carried out adhering to the approved guidelines in these permits, in addition to the standards outlined in the ASAB/ABS (2012) guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching.