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