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News

Wednesday, 08 Jul 2020

Professor Kruuk will receive $3.3 million in funding from the ARC to pursue research into the effects of changing environments on wild animal populations.

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A frog
Friday, 19 Jun 2020

The unique genetic make-up of a group of Australian frogs could be the key to their survival, allowing them to better withstand our harsh climate.

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Friday, 29 May 2020

Why judging a book by its cover has led to a tangled family tree for the longhorn beetle.

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Thursday, 30 Apr 2020

A bird study led by The Australian National University (ANU) provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming world.

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New Holland Honeyeater. Image credit Dr Jessica McLachlan
Monday, 06 Apr 2020

New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there’s danger, using a two-stage alarm call. They ‘front-load’ information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly.
The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to reinforce the message and signal how long to remain hidden.

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Expert entomologist Michael Braby with butterfly
Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020

Australia’s current bushfire crisis could wipe out some of our rarer insect species, according to a group of experts.

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Events

19 Feb 2021 | 4 - 5pm

The study of animal ‘personality’, or consistent individual differences in behaviour, has received much attention in the last two decades, but several important questions remain unclear.

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11 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Animals live in an ever-changing world, but environmental perturbations are occurring at an alarming rate - threatening biodiversity and population persistence.

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8 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

I examine how some established population genetic models can be extended to accommodate insights from newer data and analytic methods.

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4 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Individuals can benefit by varying their investment in offspring. The optimal amount of investment may vary in relation to both climatic conditions and social conditions (such as the number of carers for the offspring).

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27 Nov 2020 | 4:30 - 5pm

Why do organisms look the way they do? Why do they live where they do? Wy are some groups more diverse than others? These basic questions are often addressed at different scales using a particular set of methods.

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