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Uncovering the oddities of Australian orchids

Dr Tobias Hayashi studied a delicate little native orchid with a cool and clever adaptation to attract pollinators.

Big brains bring change: Inside the social life of spiders

While most spiders are creatures of solitude, a study involving researchers from ANU has found some species have become more gregarious.  

Under her wing: thirty years observing the secret lives of superb fairy wrens

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

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Event recordings

12 November 2021

Judith Bourne, Gordon Group, E&E, RSB

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

29 October 2021

Upama Aich, Jennions Group, E&E, RSB

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...

21 October 2021

Emily DuVal, Florida State University

Social behaviors are essential to the lives of many animals. “Complex” social behaviors are interactions among conspecifics take many forms, including repeated associations with...

8 October 2021

Yi-Yang (Alex) Chen, Jennions Group, E&E, RSB

Canopy-forming seaweeds, generally brown macroalgae, are worldwide dominant primary producers and habitat constructors in our marine environments.

23 September 2021

Jun Otsuka (Kyoto University), Tobias Uller (Lund University)

Invited Panel: Simone Blomberg and Shinichi Nakagawa

2 September 2021

Prof Rebecca Kilner, Cambridge University, UK

For more than 50 years, the scientific study of animal behaviour has been defined by Tinbergen’s Four Questions. Two of his questions consider the connection between evolution and...

12 August 2021

A/Prof Patrick Savage, Keio University, Dr Xia Hua, Australian National University

Invited Panel: Michael Kasumovic & Dominique Potvin

5 August 2021

Rob Brooks, University of New South Wales

New developments in robotics, virtual reality, and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are giving rise to a new type of technologies: the ‘artificial intimacies’.

27 May 2021

Prof Anna-Liisa Laine, University of Zurich, Dr Ben Ashby, University of Bath

Invited Panel: Ary Hoffmann, Karyn Johnson, Ben Schwessinger

14 May 2021

Zoltan Kocsi, Zeil Group, E&E, RSB

Visual insect navigation is an active research topic. Insects have low resolution eyes and a tiny brain, yet they continuously solve very complex navigational problems; an ability...