Polyandrous frogs

by | Feb 10, 2011 | Behaviour, Lab news, Sexual selection

African foam nesting frogs represent one of the most extreme examples of polyandry in a vertebrate and this is thought to be a fertility insurance mechanism. Our paper, just published online, shows that offspring from polyandrous matings had both significantly higher...

Lizard tail waving

by | Dec 26, 2010 | Behaviour, Weird and unusual

This yellow-striped tree skink (Lipinia vittigera) was filmed by Marc and Danielle Nardini at Angkor Wat ruins in Cambodia. While many lizards have conspicuous tails to draw predators to an ‘expendable’ body part, tail waving above the body is extremely...

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