by Whiting | Feb 14, 2013 | Behaviour, Frog, Lab news, Publications, Science news, Social behaviour
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...
by Whiting | Feb 2, 2013 | Lab news
For those of you with Instagram accounts, the Lizard Lab has just launched it’s own account: lizardlab Please follow us! Here’s a sample of our Instagram photos:
by Whiting | Feb 2, 2013 | Lab news
The Australian Society of Herpetologists (ASH) just concluded its annual conference at Point Wolstoncroft at Lake Macquarie. The conference was one of the largest ASH meetings ever–maybe the largest (I forget), with 170 delegates. Martin, Dan, Siobhan and Grant...
by Whiting | Jan 26, 2013 | Lab news, Publications, Science news, Sexual selection, Water skink project
The sex life of Australian water skinks (Eulamprus) has received considerable attention in the past few decades. The Keogh Lab documented alternate reproductive tactics in E. heatwolei and Jess Stapley’s PhD focused in part, on fitness consequences of ARTs. More...
by Whiting | Jan 15, 2013 | Cane toads, Frog, Lab news
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...
