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Wednesday, 19 Oct 2022

Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.

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Monday, 19 Sep 2022

Spring isn't all it's quacked up to be. Pollen levels are high, magpies are terrorising cyclists and pedestrians alike, and protective duck parents are in attack mode.

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Saturday, 03 Sep 2022

Our new research unites genomic sequencing and museum collections to reconstruct the evolutionary tale of native rodents, including many extinct and elusive species – and they have a fascinating origin story.

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Thursday, 01 Sep 2022

If swooping season strikes fear into your heart, you're not alone. Fortunately, Dr Chaminda Ratnayake from the ANU Research School of Biology has the intel you need to navigate the great outdoors this spring.

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Magpie-lark pair duetting. Image: Pawel Rek
Thursday, 14 Jul 2022

A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.

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Friday, 27 May 2022

The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.

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Events

24 Feb 2022 | 1pm

Why are sex differences the result of biological and economic forces? How do mating market conditions affect gendered violence?

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11 Feb 2022 | 4pm

The extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli lineages STs 131, 73 and 95, of the phylogroup B2 are equally likely to be responsible for hospital- and community-acquired human extra-intestinal disease.

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17 Dec 2021 | 4pm

Phylogenetic inference is the process of reconstructing relationships between species from genomic sequence data. The reliability of phylogenetic analysis relies on the quality of the data and the fitness of the substitution models.

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12 Nov 2021 | 4pm

Escherichia coli extraintestinal infections (ExPEC) cause significant disease in humans and companion animals (cats and dogs).

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29 Oct 2021 | 4pm

What is the effect of male age under sexual selection? Studies testing for age effects on reproduction have largely focused on female ageing and maternal effects, and the magnitude and direction of male age effects remain poorly understood.

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21 Oct 2021 | 12pm

Social behaviors are essential to the lives of many animals. “Complex” social behaviors are interactions among conspecifics take many forms, including repeated associations with particular individuals, interactions that differ across different contexts, or coordinated behaviors among many individuals. 

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