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...
by Noble | Jan 24, 2011 | Weird and unusual
I was given this paper by a few friends in the department, which was actually published quite a while ago in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. I’m sure this has stimulated some thought provoking discussions and controversy over the years! The reviewers...
by Dani | Jan 13, 2011 | Lab news, Water dragon project
Yes everyone, it’s what we’ve all been waiting for- the water dragon babies are hatching!! YAY! The first baby hatched on 03/01/11, here are some photos of his super-cute emergence:
by Whiting | Jan 1, 2011 | Lab news
Living in Sydney does have its benefits! Photos copyright Martin...
by Whiting | 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...
by Whiting | Dec 11, 2010 | Weird and unusual
My friend Hamlet Giragossian recently showed me this very interesting web site called the Weird Book Room. Here is an explanation from their web site “Welcome to AbeBooks’ Weird Book Room – heralded by the New York Times, Canada’s Globe and...
by Noble | Dec 10, 2010 | Lab news, Water skink project
Yes, that’s right, the first of our Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii) babies have made their way into the world. Although it is earlier then expected, these little cuties are doing all the cool stuff their parents do. Little head bobs, chowing down on crickets and...
by Whiting | Dec 1, 2010 | Lab news
The good news is that Pau Carazo, who recently completed his PhD at the University of Valencia, has won an Endeavour Award. This will fund him for a six month visit to the Lizard Lab in 2011, beginning in late February. An interesting, fun fact about Pau, is that he...
