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 9, 2013 | Conservation, Publications, Science news
With the exception of perhaps crocodiles and turtles, the attention devoted to the conservation of reptiles has for a long time lagged behind that devoted to birds and mammals. A recent study published in Biological Conservation, to which we contributed a small amount...
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 siobhan | Jan 2, 2013 | Desert skink project
Well, after three months of a four-month fieldtrip to AWC Newhaven, I thought it was time to send a long-overdue update via the Lizard Lab Blog! Newhaven veterans Chris Turnbull and Andy Beattie joined me for the first month of the trip, and as always, were incredibly...
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, Cognition, Cunningham skink project, Social intelligence
Macquarie University is currently offering MQRES scholarships for prospective Australian or NZ PhD students who can commence by 15 December 2012. We know this is short notice, but the combination of a positive outcome in the latest funding round from the Australian...
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...
by Whiting | Sep 27, 2012 | Chameleons, Ecology, Publications
See our new paper on the natural history of the flap-necked chameleon from southern Africa. It can be downloaded for free from the MCZ web page:...
