Imagine being a frog during the chaos of the breeding season and navigating the gathering crowds around the pond. How do you know who might be a suitable mate let alone whether they are male or female? One solution is colour. If one sex, typically males, is able to turn on some bright colour . . . → Read More: Turn up the colour: male frogs use bright colours to avoid confusion at the pond
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 Comments are closed  Animal signals, Behaviour, Colour, Communication, Frog  colour change, dynamic sexual dichromatism, frog, Grant Webster, Litoria revelata, Litoria wilcoxii, Rayna Bell, The Lizard Lab After attending the 8th World Congress of Herpetology in China, I had a night and a day in South Korea before flying on to my next destination, the US. What to do? As it turned out, I had a windfall (thanks Julia). I met Amaël Borzée, a PhD student from Seoul National University. Amaël . . . → Read More: Dispatches from the field: frogging at the DMZ Comments are closed Dispatches from the field, Frog, Herpetology, Lizard Lab adventures Amaël Borzée, DMZ, Frogging in South Korea A major interest in our lab is social behaviour and why animals live in groups. Group formation has evolved numerous times independently in many different species. Understanding the proximate mechanisms and ultimate (evolutionary) factors driving group formation is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. Stephan Leu recently spent time in the Lizard Lab and . . . → Read More: Tadpoles need friends too! Comments are closed Behaviour, Frog, Lab news, Publications, Science news, Social behaviour green and golden bell frog, group formation, Litoria aurea, social attraction, social behaviour, Stephan Leu, tadpole Since its introduction to Queensland in 1935, the cane toad (Rhinella marina) has spread westwards across northern Australia, is now present in all but one of the major regions of the Wet-Dry tropics, and has just started to spread into the last region – the pristine Kimberley wilderness. While a review of available data . . . → Read More: Investigating impacts of the invasive cane toad on populations of Magnificent Tree Frog in the east Kimberley, Western Australia Dynamic (physiological) colour change in the context of sexual selection is almost unstudied in frogs. The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata) is one of several Australian frogs which use colour during sexual advertisement. Grant Webster’s honours project is to test whether colour is indicative of male quality. To this end, he is measuring the . . . → Read More: Sex and the single (yellow) frog Here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Max Mason, reporting on work recently published by Phil Byrne and Martin Whiting. Best to sleep around to help the kids – if you’re a frog Comments are closed Frog, Lab news, Science news, Sexual selection Chiromantis xerampelina, foam nest frog, Lizard Lab, Martin Whiting, Phil Byrne, polygyny, promiscuity, sexual selection Here is an Australian Geographic report on all Phil’s hard work in the field! Harmonious orgy is winning formula for frogs – Australian Geographic. 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Behaviour, Frog, Sexual selection Australian Geographic, Chiromantis xerampelina, Grey foam nest frog, harmonious orgy, Lizard Lab, Martin Whiting, Phil Byrne, polyandry, promiscuity, sexual selection |
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