by Whiting | Sep 17, 2012 | Lab news
We have been loading tons of photos from past field trips and of many of our study animals. Our photos are arranged in “sets”, which is really a gallery/album. Follow the link below and have a look at a set of your choice during your next coffee break!...
by Whiting | Sep 13, 2012 | Behaviour, Frog, Lab news, Sexual selection
Dynamic (physiological) colour change in the context of sexual selection is almost unstudied in frogs. The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata) is one of several Australian frogs which use colour during sexual advertisement. Grant Webster’s honours project is...
by Whiting | Sep 11, 2012 | field work volunteers
I’m looking for several volunteers to help me with my PhD research on the tawny dragon lizard Ctenophorus decresii, a small agamid lizard. Male dragons found in the Flinders Ranges are seen in four different colour forms. I am investigating if colour types differ in...
by Whiting | Sep 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here are a selection of photos of reptiles from our field work in the Tukai Desert, northern China. See our previous blog post: Dispatches from the field: in search of the mystical Secret Toad-headed Agama and other tail waving lizards in China We will soon be posting...
by Whiting | Aug 22, 2012 | China field work, Lab news, Publications, Toad-headed agamas
Gilead Amit has featured our recent PLoS One paper (full reference below) in New Scientist. Read the article by clicking the link below. Cold-blooded burrow sharing in Tibetan lizards and to download the PLoS One article for free, click on the article diagram below. Y...
by Whiting | Jul 19, 2012 | Behaviour, China field work, Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Toad-headed agamas
Blog posting by Dr. Qi Yin, Chengdu Institute of Biology (CAS) When you see the colorful and threatening face above, what response does this evoke? Imagine a lizard predator about to grab a lizard and suddenly it flares it’s cheek flaps and simultaneously...
by siobhan | Jul 10, 2012 | Desert skink project
An enthusiastic and capable fieldwork assistant is needed for a study on Great Desert Skinks (Liopholis kintorei) in the Northern Territory. The project forms the behavioural component of a PhD investigating the sociality and dispersal of these unique lizards. In...
by Whiting | Jul 6, 2012 | Behaviour, China field work, Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Toad-headed agamas, Uncategorized
This dispatch comes to you from the Tukai Desert in north-west China, a short drive (about 15 km) from the Kazakhstan border. We are three weeks into a six-week field trip. The lab is currently working on the evolution of complex tail waves and colour signals in Asian...
by Whiting | Jun 9, 2012 | Behaviour, Cognition, Lab news, Science news
Read an account of our recent work on mole-rat spatial cognition by Dani Cooper of ABC science. This work was carried out by Lydia du Toit while she she was on a postdoc with Martin. Mole-rats varied life boosts the brain — ABC Science ...
by Whiting | May 30, 2012 | Cognition, Lab news, Publications
We have just published a study on African mole-rat cognition which provides evidence that captivity in a less stimulating environment can result in a decline in cognitive performance. Recently caught mole-rats from the wild performed better in a maze test than...
