by Whiting | Jul 9, 2013 | China field work, Conservation, Dispatches from the field, Habitat use, Lizard Lab adventures, Phrynocephalus, Toad-headed agamas
We have just recently finished working on a particularly interesting lizard: the toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus axillaris. We found a population on the gravel plains just west of Ruoqiang, in central Xinjiang Province, while searching for another species, P....
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 Whiting | May 22, 2012 | China field work, Lab news, Toad-headed agamas
Our great friend and colleague Dr. Qi Yin of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, who is an associate of the lab, has just finished building an amazing complex of enclosures at Xiaman Conservation Station in the Zoige Wetland Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province. We like to...
by Whiting | Jun 12, 2011 | Behaviour, China field work, Lizard Lab adventures, Toad-headed agamas, Uncategorized
We are currently in a race against the clock. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t exactly been kind to us. Yesterday was great, we had a nice sunny day and collected tons of data. (We are in China visiting and assisting Dr. Qi Yin on his toad-agama project with an eye to...
