PhD student at University of Helsinki - teaching birds to play computer games.
Theo Brown
A great LUOVA Spring Symposium! Presented the preliminary results from an ongoing experiment. @helsinki.fi @aplantaginis.bsky.social
Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social presents his awesome work on false head evolution in butterflies with very beautiful animations.
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Can you spot the moths? This is a perfect illustration of Akhil Sadiq's talk, 'Blending at borders: the role of background boundaries in camouflage'.
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This is a perfect opening for session 2B. Theo Brown asks, 'Does it pay to be lazy?' He tested the 'lazy flight' hypothesis of aposematic butterflies.
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Packed room to kick off the Evolutionary Ecology session at #EMPSEB30 with a talk by @theobrown.bsky.social, who wonders whether it pays off to be lazy… if you are a butterfly, that is! 🦋🐥@empseb30.bsky.social
Free link! Our article on bird flash plumage signals is now officially out in Ornithology.
Huge thanks (again) to David Allen Sibley for allowing us to use his artwork in it. #ornithology @amornith.bsky.social
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Bibiana Rojas
Lauryn Benedict
ABSTRACT. Animal coloration patterns are wildly variable. Despite this, there are plumage traits that occur similarly across taxonomic groups, suggesting t
