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By Birgit Szabo As children we have much to learn after we are born. We learn to walk, to talk, to develop our social skills, and when we start school we learn how to read, write and do maths. Humans, and many other animals, are considered altricial, meaning that juveniles need to be taken . . . → Read More: Blue-tongue lizards are born smart, at least as smart as their parents!  Comments are closed  Bluetongue lizard, Bluetongue skink, Cognition  Birgit Szabo, blue-tongue skink, bluey, cognition, learning, Lizard Lab, precocial, The Lizard Lab The latest edition of Australian Geographic features the iconic Australian Frill-necked Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii). A big part of the article, written by John Pickrell, features our own Christian Alessandro Perez-Martinez! And the top of the page features his photo (reproduced at left). Well done Christian! Have a read of the article. The paper, . . . → Read More: Australian Geographic features frilled lizard work! Comments are closed Animal signals, Anti-predator behaviour, Behaviour Christian Alesandro Perez-Martinez, deimatic display, frilled lizard, Frilly, lizard, Lizard Lab, reptile Check out our new paper on social learning in the Italian wall lizard, Podarcis sicula. This work formed part of Isabel Damas’ PhD thesis, and it was a huge effort! The question of what makes an invasive species successful compared to other species, that may fail to gain a foothold in a new location, . . . → Read More: Hot off the press! An invasive lizard species can learn from other species Comments are closed Cognition, Conservation, Podarcis, Publications cognition, heterospecific learning, Isabel Damas, Italian wall lizard, learning, lizard, Lizard Lab, Podarcis bocagei, Podarcis sicula, social learning, The Lizard Lab This is a behind-the-scenes video tour of the lab. We will show you our research facilities, some of our study animals, and our lizard enclosures. This video was entirely put together by Cooper Van De Wal. Cooper is a student at Macquarie and volunteers in the lab. He also has his own, highly successful . . . → Read More: Come on a tour of The Lizard Lab Comments are closed Herpetology, Lab news, Lizard Lab facilities Cooper Van Der Wal, herpetology, Lizard Lab, Lizard Lab facilities, studying lizards An enduring question among fans of blue-tongue lizards is why the blue tongue? Why have such an outrageously coloured tongue, given that the vast majority of lizards have a regular old pink tongue? Blueys (bluetongue skinks) are something of an Australian icon. They are part of Australian folklore and most Australians have encountered them . . . → Read More: Why blue tongue? A potential deimatic display has been uncovered in blue-tongue skinks Comments are closed Anti-predator behaviour, Behaviour, Bluetongue lizard, Bluetongue skink, Colour, Communication, Deimatic display anti-predator behaviour, Arnaud Badiane, bluetongue lizard, bluetongue skink, deimatic display, Kate Umbers, Lizard Lab, Pau Carazo, Sarah Campbell, Sergio Naretto, The Lizard Lab, Tiliqua scincoides It’s been a very busy year, which explains why I am only now writing this blog post from my trip to China earlier this year (May-June). I had the amazing opportunity of seeing one of the world’s most endangered lizards—the crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus), in the wild, and working with one of the largest . . . → Read More: Dispatches from the field: new adventures with endangered crocodile lizards and oriental garden lizards Note: this blog post is republished from Fonti’s web site Dominant individuals tend to have greater monopoly over food and mates and therefore have more offspring compared to subordinate individuals. Are these successes attributed to greater cognitive ability? Or are dominant individuals just better at freeloading from their clever subordinate counterparts? We investigated . . . → Read More: Brains and Brawn: dominant lizards are better learners too! We are looking for a highly motivated and suitably qualified candidate to conduct a PhD program of research on reptile visual ecology, commencing in 2017. The successful applicant will be guided to develop a project to investigate the visual performance and ecological adaptations of a range of lizard species with differing life history traits. . . . → Read More: PhD opportunity – visual ecology of lizards Comments are closed PhD opportunity Lizard Lab, Lizard visual ecology, PhD opportunity, PhD scholarship Recently, myself and collaborators published our study that found – social experience has a crucial role in development of a family-living lizard. We also discovered that despite their social nature, the Australian tree skink (Egernia striolata) does not necessarily thrive in a ‘share-house’ environment. Egernia striolata from Gluepot, South Australia Group- and family-living . . . → Read More: Hot off the press! Roommates are not all they’re cracked up to be (if you’re a lizard) Comments are closed Egernia, Sociality, Tree skink project Egernia striolata, Julia Riley, lizard, Lizard Lab, social behaviour, social development By Jodie Gruber The cane toad (Rhinella marina) has been spreading rapidly across northern Australia since its introduction to control sugar cane beetles in 1935. While toads have been the focus of considerable research, we still have a poor understanding of how behavioiural traits vary across the range, particularly with respect to traits that . . . → Read More: Hot off the press! Toads at the invasion front are more prone to explore and take risks Comments are closed Behaviour, Cane toads Cane toad, Invasive species, Jodie Gruber, Lizard Lab, personality, The Lizard Lab |
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