by Whiting | Mar 21, 2011 | Augrabies flat lizards, Ecology, Lab news, Sexual selection
Lizards found to send secret signals – Australian Geographic.
by Whiting | Mar 21, 2011 | Augrabies flat lizards, Lab news, Sexual selection
Augrabies Flat lizards, made famous in David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood (Dragons of the Dry) and also in Planet Earth (Deserts) have made the news again. Our study of their visual system reveals remarkably high sensitivity to UV. In fact, they are...
by Whiting | Mar 11, 2011 | Cunningham skink project, Lab news
New arrivals! The long awaited Cunningham’s skink babies have started to drop alive and well. Proud mothers started giving birth last week, and there are 10 babies so far with many more to come. They all weigh between 7g and 9g and are very lively. Their arrival...
by Carazo | Mar 5, 2011 | Behaviour, Lab news
The news arrived. ‘Animals in translation: why there is meaning (but probably no message) in animal communication’, one of Pau Carazo’s latest papers along with Enrique Font, hit the headlines! The paper was published last August in Animal Behaviour,...
by Whiting | Feb 22, 2011 | Ecology, Habitat use, Lab news
I recently visited my old field site at Augrabies Falls National Park, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The park is situated on the Orange River, not too far from the border with Namibia. I was in for a bit of a shock. The river was in flood and at its...
by Whiting | 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...
