Animal communication – Page 2 – Animal Behaviour Group

Frogging in Brisbane

Earlier in the year, the ABG finally made its way to Brisbane in order to record calls from our target

Thesis submission March 2019 | Xue (“Snow”) Bian submitted her PhD thesis: A new frontier for behavioural biology: quantifying the

One of the projects currently ongoing at the ABG involves studying genetically and morphologically distinct populations of Ctenophorus fionni, the

One of the most memorable fieldtrips of 2018 for the ABG was the few weeks we spent exploring the Kimberley

Combined field trips in search of lizards and frogs are always equally fun and challenging because of the intense fieldwork

The Pacific Iguanas (Microlophus occipitalis) are endemic to Ecuador and Peru. They are small sexually dimorphic lizards with remarkable behaviour.

The Peru Pacific Iguana (Microlophus peruvianus) is an endemic lizard from Peru, Ecuador and Chile. They are big lizards with

During the months of May and June, the ABG travelled to the Tibetan Plateau in the Sichuan Province of China,

The ABG recently returned from a combined field trip to New South Wales. The team visited several locations including the

Our Virtual Lens project has attracted media interest with Richard and Snow filmed by Channel Ten. Filming indoors and outdoors

We are pleased to report that Snow’s paper – the Virtual Lens Project method paper – was just published in

The use of movement to communicate is widespread in the animal kingdom, and understanding of the structure and function of

The Jacky lizard (Amphibolurus muricatus) responds to greater plant motion noise by extending the duration of introductory tail flicking, which

Models of signal evolution predict that the threat posed by eavesdropping predators will influence the evolution of signal structure and

Studies have shown that numerous species eavesdrop on the calls of heterospecifics to gain information about predator presence. Responding to