Animals often instinctively assess their environment, and display innate behavioural responses. For example, many newly born reptiles and fish know how to respond to predators – knowing when to “fight” and when to “flee” – right after hatching out of their eggs! Innate behavioural responses, especially in times of peril, may be the difference . . . → Read More: Up for a fight or doing a runner, for a lizard it could be in their genes
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Freek Vonk is a Dutch scientist and nature documentary presenter. He and his crew have just wrapped season 1 of “Freek in Australia”. Part of this series consisted of a day at our lab filming cane toads and discussing our work on cognition followed by a trip to our water dragon site at Lane . . . → Read More: Freek Vonk visits the Lizard Lab  Comments are closed  Cane toads, Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Water dragon project  Freek Vonk, Freek Vonk in Australia, The Lizard Lab, water dragon Recently, the Lizard Lab had the pleasure of a visit from Jonathan Losos (Harvard University). Ofcourse, this meant a trip to the water dragon site for some dragon wrangling. Here are a few photos of the action. Jonathan doesn't normally noose Anoles with a 5 m pole.. The dragon lady takes control.. . . . → Read More: Jonathan Losos catches a water dragon, just. Comments are closed Lab news, Water dragon project anole, dragon lady, Harvard, Jonathan Losos, lizard, Lizard Lab, water dragon, whiting Prior to the ISBE conference in Perth, the Lizard Lab was visited by Mike Cant (University of Exeter), Marlene Zuk (UC Riverside) and John Alcock (Arizona State University). All visited the water dragon site (at different times) and tried their hands at catching water dragons. Here are some photos (some of the poorer ones . . . → Read More: The water dragon project gets a series of high profile visitors! |
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