News – Animal Behaviour Group

Dani submits her Honours thesis

Dani submitted her Honours thesis on 8 June 2026 … Dani’s nights searching for spiders on difficult terrain – often

Jess Iannello submitted her MSc thesis in June 2026 entitled A Tale of Two States: Ecological and Microbial Variation in

Jessica Iannello submitted her Honours thesis on 2 June 2025. Her thesis was entitled: Microhabitats, morphometrics and the microbiome: uncovering

Estefany submitted her PhD thesis on 31 January 2025. Her thesis was entitled: Masters of Altitude: Investigating the Thermal Ecology

James Coles submitted their Honours thesis on 2 June 2024. Their thesis was entitled: Adjacent refuge and microhabitat structures on

Past and present members of the ABG attended Tefa’s graduation in September (with others who could not attend present in

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

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

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

It has certainly been a tough year. As with many around the world, the ABG have relied on zoom to

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