Ecuador – Animal Behaviour Group

Galapagos: Pinzón

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

Congratulations to Estefania Boada who has received £5010 ($9000) from The Rufford Foundation to support her research in Ecuador. Estefania

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

For animals to communicate effectively, signals are required to be successfully detected by an intended receiver across the extent of

Visual signalling is used during inter and intra specific interactions, and has evolved toward complex, diverse and highly species-specific displays.

Species aggregations within communities can be influenced by several processes, which operate over different spatial and temporal scales. We sampled