Lizards – Page 2 – Animal Behaviour Group

The cold lizard project begins

THE ABG commenced a new research project in 2021 based at the Ecuadorean Andes . This study is mainly focused

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

Xue (‘Snow’) Bian’s final data chapter has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Snow used 3D animation technology to

A quick expedition to photograph Jacky lizards of the NSW south coast We had a relatively early start on 18th

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

The final field season for Jon Salisbury’s PhD work on Jacky dragon dorsal patterns has commenced. Jon’s activities began locally

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

Snow’s second paper has been accepted by Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution. Check out the abstract below and scroll down

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

Members of the ABG and volunteers recently returned from a tour of central and coastal New South Wales (Oct/Nov 2018)

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