I am back at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia for 5 weeks and today I met an old friend 😍 the easter bluetongue skink 🦎 Oh, how I missed this place ❤️ and the people @lizardlab.bsky.social
Did you ever wonder how the pre- and post-natal environment influence Tokay gecko development in captivity? Look no further!
I answer this question in my new paper published in Herpetozoa (open access):
doi.org/10.3897/herp...
#herps
We believe research should be accessible to as many readers as possible, so we are proud to announce that authors can now include a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper
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Zebra finch parents change the brains of chicks inside eggs just by singing to them! Adult zebra finches sing heat songs when temperatures are high & the sound changes blood vessels in the hypothalamus, potentially protecting the chicks from heat stroke
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
🦎 Fascinating new insights have revealed how a Tokay gecko's sex and hatchling size are shaped by nest temperatures: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e165454
➡️ Check out @pensoft.net's latest blog post for further insights from researcher Dr. Birgit Szabo: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/12/u...
Does it matter whether you use focal sampling or scan sampling to collect animal behaviour data? We used simulations to find out, testing how accurate and precise each method is across a range of behaviours, study systems, and observation protocols.
📢Webinar alert📢
Join us for our new webinar, together with @liftcostaction.bsky.social, as Dr Kat Wehrheim explores the philosophical journey of inter-species kinship & what indigenous perspectives can teach us about agency in relationships.
⏰ 5 pm CEST
📅 May 4th
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Fine #sensory innervation of the contact surface of #lamellae bearing adhesive setae in the tokay gecko zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #adhesion #geckos @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social
Birgit Szabo, PhD 🦎🐸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Birgit Szabo, PhD 🦎🐸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions:
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Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Experimental Biology
Herpetozoa
Christian Nawroth
🦎 Fascinating new insights have revealed how a Tokay gecko's sex and hatchling size are shaped by nest temperatures: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e165454
➡️ Check out our latest blog post for further insights from researcher Dr. Birgit Szabo: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/12/u...
#tokaygecko
Delphine De Moor
www.vetmeduni.ac.at
Journal of Zoology
Christoph Völter
🎉 New year, new Applying Ethology webinars! 🐾
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New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…
