Animal communication – Animal Behaviour Group

Paper: signalling under threat

We report on the elaboration of a movement-based lizard display in the presence of a simulated predator, and argue that

The study found that the effectiveness of the Qinghai toad-headed agama’s tail displays depends on environmental conditions and viewing perspective,

In this paper we review putative ecological variables that predict the occurrence of alarm calls by birds in the Australian

ABG student Estefania Boada Viteri has had her PhD thesis approved by La Trobe University Academic Board and has been

We report for the first time the movement-based signals of four lizards from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Abstract

We demonstrate that the visual amplitudes generated by tail flicking of Jacky lizards are larger than obvious alternative (push-ups) and

ABG student Bhagya Herath has had her doctoral thesis approved by Academic Board in August 2021. Congratulations Dr Bhagya Herath.

Estefania Boada (Tefa) submitted her thesis on 10 December 2021. Her thesis was entitled: Behavioural partitioning of mainland and island

Jose quantified the motion displays of five members of the C. decresii complex (see below) in the context of their respective habitats

Ben Wilson publishes his undergraduate honours project on the Peninsula Dragon (Ctenophorus fionni) in the Australian Journal of Zoology. A

Bhagya Herath submitted her PhD thesis on 1 March 2021. Her thesis is entitled: Multidimensional Complexity of Communication Signals of

After the Christmas and New Year’s Eve break, we returned to the Galapagos Islands on January 2nd 2020, to visit

Out trip to find Isla Santiago‘s lava lizard (Microlophus jacobi) started on the 15th of December 2019 with a four

The second island destination for Estefania (Tefa) Boada’s PhD work was on the island of Floreana. The island supports a much

Estefania (Tefa) Boada’s PhD work on Ecuador’s lava lizards (Microlophus sp.) continues from December 2019 and takes place in the