by Whiting | Mar 21, 2011 | Augrabies flat lizards, Ecology, Lab news, Sexual selection
Lizards found to send secret signals – Australian Geographic.
by Whiting | Mar 21, 2011 | Augrabies flat lizards, Lab news, Sexual selection
Augrabies Flat lizards, made famous in David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood (Dragons of the Dry) and also in Planet Earth (Deserts) have made the news again. Our study of their visual system reveals remarkably high sensitivity to UV. In fact, they are...
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...