by Whiting | Sep 23, 2017 | Animal signals, Behaviour, Colour, Communication, Frog
Imagine being a frog during the chaos of the breeding season and navigating the gathering crowds around the pond. How do you know who might be a suitable mate let alone whether they are male or female? One solution is colour. If one sex, typically males, is able to...
by Whiting | Sep 10, 2016 | Dispatches from the field, Frog, Herpetology, Lizard Lab adventures
After attending the 8th World Congress of Herpetology in China, I had a night and a day in South Korea before flying on to my next destination, the US. What to do? As it turned out, I had a windfall (thanks Julia). I met Amaël Borzée, a PhD student from Seoul National...
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 | 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...
by Whiting | Sep 13, 2012 | Behaviour, Frog, Lab news, Sexual selection
Dynamic (physiological) colour change in the context of sexual selection is almost unstudied in frogs. The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata) is one of several Australian frogs which use colour during sexual advertisement. Grant Webster’s honours project is...
by Whiting | Sep 13, 2011 | Frog, Lab news, Science news, Sexual selection
Here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Max Mason, reporting on work recently published by Phil Byrne and Martin Whiting. Best to sleep around to help the kids – if you’re a...
