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) …
Waterhole adjacent to Yarra RiverFishing spider habitat
Fowlers Gap Research StationNew South Wales
Zebra finchesVictoria, New South Wales
PinzonGalapagos Is
Anolis scypheusEastern Ecuador (Yasuni)
Flinders Ranges (top) Parachilna Gorge (bottom)South Australia
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Amhibolurus muricatusVictoria
SumacoNapo province - Eastern Ecuador
Zoige Wetland Nature Reserve(China)
Dolomedes facetus
Liopholis guthega
Anolis fitchiEastern Ecuador (Napo)
Tengger DesertMinqin County, Wuwei, Gansu, China
Paramo ecosystemTropical Andes, Ecuador
Ctenophorus fordiVictoria, South Australia
Falls CreekVictoria
Anolis gemmosusManduriacu
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Microlophus grayiiFemale (L) and Male (R)
Stenocercus chota
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Microlophus duncanensisGalapagos Is
Tengger DesertMinqin County, Wuwei, Gansu, China
Anolis parvauritusPalenque - Western Ecuador
Microlophus duncanensisGalapagos Is
Gowidon longirostrisNorthern Territory
PalenqueLos Rios province - Western Ecuador
Diamond CreekFishing spider habitat
Anolis fasciatus
Yasuni National ParkFrancisco del Orellana province - Eastern Ecuador
Madrigal of Podocarpus ReserveTropical Andes, Ecuador
Microlophus grayiiMale
Xiamen Conservation Station (China)Zoige Wetland Nature Reserve (China)
Gawler RangesSouth Australia
Cotopaxi National ParkTropical Andes, Ecuador
Stenocercus cadlei
Croajingalong National ParkVictoria
Ctenophorus pictusVictoria, South Australia
Thornbills and fairy wrens(clockwise from top-left): chestnut-rumped thornbill, White winged fairy wren, superb fairy wren, yellow-rumped thornbill
Phrynocephalus przewalskii
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Microlophus jacobiSantiago
Ctenophorus decresiiSouth Australia
Rosanna ParklandsFishing spider habitat
Ctenophorus fionniSouth Australia
San CristóbalGalapagos Is
FloreanaGalapagos Is
Ngarkat Conservation ReserveSouth Australia
Microlophus jacobiSantiago
Ctenophorus vadnappaSouth Australia
Anolis ortoniiEastern Ecuador (Yasuni)
Anolis princepsPalenque - Western Ecuador
ThredboNSW
Anolis gemmosusOtonga
BuenaventuraEl Oro province - Western Ecuador
Phrynocephalus vlangalii(China)
PinzonGalapagos Is
Murray Sunset National ParkVictoria
West MacDonnell Ranges National ParkNorthern Territory
ChimborazoTropical Andes, Ecuador
Stenocercus guentheri
El Angel Ecological ReserveTropical Andes, Ecuador
OtongaCotopaxi province - Western Ecuador
MiraTropical Andes, Ecuador
Anolis gemmosusGuajalito
SantiagoGalapagos Is
Please contact Richard Peters if you are interested in joining the lab at Undergraduate Honours, Postgraduate or Postdoctoral level – richard.peters@latrobe.edu.au.