by Whiting | Feb 14, 2014 | Science news, Sexual selection, Social behaviour, Uncategorized
Lizard Lab alumnus Pau Carazo is best known for his work on communication in lizards. Along the way he has dabbled with beetles and now, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). In a recent paper in Nature, Pau and his colleagues at Oxford designed a novel series of...
by Whiting | Jul 21, 2013 | Animal signals, Behaviour, Small-eyed snake, Social behaviour
Snakes have traditionally been viewed as the poor cousins of lizards where social behaviour is concerned. This is perhaps an artefact of generally being more cryptic and less tractable than lizards and therefore more difficult to study. Nevertheless, snakes are...
by Whiting | Jun 29, 2013 | China field work, Dispatches from the field, Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Phrynocephalus, Social behaviour, Toad-headed agamas
I am currently in Xinjiang Province, northern China, with Dr. Qi Yin, our collaborator from the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), which is part of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). We have funding from CAS to study the evolution of complex visual signals in...
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...
