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Dr. Birgit Szabo talks lizard smarts!

by Whiting | Oct 15, 2019 | Behaviour, Cognition, Egernia, Lab news

Birgit recently gave a public lecture about her research on lizard cognition at a mini-conference “The Future of Herpetology, Inspiring Women and Forgotten Frogs: A conference promoting women’s voices in herpetology”. Watch her talk (below) and find out...

Blue-tongue lizards are born smart, at least as smart as their parents!

by Whiting | Aug 29, 2019 | Bluetongue lizard, Bluetongue skink, Cognition

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...

Australian Geographic features frilled lizard work!

by Whiting | Aug 23, 2019 | Animal signals, Anti-predator behaviour, Behaviour

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...

Hot off the press! An invasive lizard species can learn from other species

by Whiting | Oct 18, 2018 | Cognition, Conservation, Podarcis, Publications

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...

What tree skinks know about change: A story in colour and shape

by Whiting | Sep 12, 2018 | Cognition, Egernia, Publications, Sociality

Note from Martin Whiting: This blog posts details a chapter of Birgit Szabo’s PhD recently published in Animal Behaviour and represents an enormous amount of work. Birgit did a 9-month cognition experiment, which could be the longest lizard cognition experiment...
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