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 | Jan 5, 2013 | Lab news
Admittedly a little late, but this is what happens when you leave your camera at a friend’s house in the city. All the best for 2013 from the Lizard Lab! We hope to keep providing field dispatches and news about our findings and those of the scientific community...
by Whiting | Dec 20, 2012 | Cognition, Lab news, Water skink project
The Reptile Living Room interviewed Lizard Lab member Dan Noble about our recent Biology Letters paper on spatial cognition in Eastern Water skinks. Here’s what he had to say:
by Whiting | Nov 8, 2012 | Behaviour, Lab news, Publications, Science news, Sexual selection
Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza, Enrique Font and Pau Carazo have just published their work on colour assortative mating in the polymorphic lizard Podarcis muralis in Behavioral Ecology. Pau has previously spent time in our lab and works with us on a number of projects. The...
by Whiting | Oct 18, 2012 | Cognition, Lab news, Water skink project
For anyone interested in comparative cognition, these are exciting times and 2012 has been a good year for lizards! Manuel Leal and Robert Powell’s study of Anolis cognition demonstrated that lizards are capable of behavioural flexibility. (Behavioural flexibility, a...
by Whiting | Oct 12, 2012 | Lab news, Weird and unusual
The Lizard Lab has an official artist: Sid (aka Steve) Sledge! Here is some of his recent work entitled “the anti-gravity effects of lizard perturbations…”. See more of his amazing work or for insights on life and art, see his...
