La Trobe University | Melbourne (Australia)
Research in the Animal Behaviour Group (ABG) covers broad interests in animal behaviour, with both theoretical and applied benefits. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of animal signals in the light of sensory system function and evolutionary processes covering vibratory, acoustic and movement-based visual signals.
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The ABG has worked on 3 continents and studied 50+ species. Here is a taste of some of them (hover over an image to pause the slider) …
Microlophus jacobiSantiago
PalenqueLos Rios province - Western Ecuador
Ngarkat Conservation ReserveSouth Australia
ThredboNSW
Gawler RangesSouth Australia
Flinders Ranges (top) Parachilna Gorge (bottom)South Australia
Tengger DesertMinqin County, Wuwei, Gansu, China
Ctenophorus pictusVictoria, South Australia
West MacDonnell Ranges National ParkNorthern Territory
Ctenophorus fordiVictoria, South Australia
Fowlers Gap Research StationNew South Wales
Dolomedes facetus
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Microlophus grayiiFemale (L) and Male (R)
Anolis fitchiEastern Ecuador (Napo)
Croajingalong National ParkVictoria
BuenaventuraEl Oro province - Western Ecuador
PinzonGalapagos Is
Anolis gemmosusOtonga
Zebra finchesVictoria, New South Wales
Ctenophorus decresiiSouth Australia
Microlophus grayiiMale
Yasuni National ParkFrancisco del Orellana province - Eastern Ecuador
Phrynocephalus przewalskii
PinzonGalapagos Is
Thornbills and fairy wrens(clockwise from top-left): chestnut-rumped thornbill, White winged fairy wren, superb fairy wren, yellow-rumped thornbill
Phrynocephalus vlangalii(China)
Liopholis guthega
Anolis gemmosusGuajalito
Tengger DesertMinqin County, Wuwei, Gansu, China
Gowidon longirostrisNorthern Territory
FloreanaGalapagos Is
ChimborazoTropical Andes, Ecuador
OtongaCotopaxi province - Western Ecuador
Microlophus duncanensisGalapagos Is
Diamond CreekFishing spider habitat
FloreanaGalapagos Is
SantiagoGalapagos Is
Xiamen Conservation Station (China)Zoige Wetland Nature Reserve (China)
El Angel Ecological ReserveTropical Andes, Ecuador
Waterhole adjacent to Yarra RiverFishing spider habitat
Anolis scypheusEastern Ecuador (Yasuni)
Anolis fasciatus
Stenocercus cadlei
Anolis princepsPalenque - Western Ecuador
Microlophus jacobiSantiago
Rosanna ParklandsFishing spider habitat
Stenocercus chota
Anolis ortoniiEastern Ecuador (Yasuni)
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Cotopaxi National ParkTropical Andes, Ecuador
Murray Sunset National ParkVictoria
Anolis gemmosusManduriacu
FloreanaGalapagos Is
San CristóbalGalapagos Is
Falls CreekVictoria
Paramo ecosystemTropical Andes, Ecuador
Microlophus duncanensisGalapagos Is
Amhibolurus muricatusVictoria
Ctenophorus fionniSouth Australia
Madrigal of Podocarpus ReserveTropical Andes, Ecuador
SumacoNapo province - Eastern Ecuador
Zoige Wetland Nature Reserve(China)
MiraTropical Andes, Ecuador
Stenocercus guentheri
Ctenophorus vadnappaSouth Australia
Anolis parvauritusPalenque - Western Ecuador
Please contact Richard Peters if you are interested in joining the lab at Undergraduate Honours, Postgraduate or Postdoctoral level – richard.peters@latrobe.edu.au.