2018-04-18 18:19
As readers of this blog will know I studied how birds change their behaviour in cities for my PhD. I pleased to say I recently published part of this work in the journal Scientific Reports… Read More
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A blog focussing on all that's happening in and around our Cricket Huddle
2017-05-07 13:28
Animals in urban environments face many unique challenges including finding and adapting to new sources of food, coping with almost continual human disturbance, and learning to avoid introdu… Read More
2017-03-01 08:42
As I was coming home from work yesterday there was an unmistakable feeling of spring in the air. After what feels like a very long and harsh winter (it dropped to an incredible -16°c for… Read More
2017-02-25 16:12
I have spent the last few days in Bonn, the home of Haribo and former capital city of West Germany, for the annual meeting of the German Animal Behaviour Society (Ethologischer Gesellschaft)… Read More
2017-02-18 17:15
As I mentioned in my last post I successfully defended my PhD viva (thesis defence) just over three weeks ago. As I was preparing to defend my thesis I found it helpful and often r… Read More
2017-01-27 13:28
The very first post on this blog was written while I was still an undergraduate at the University of Derby. Today I am happy to say that I have just successfully defended my PhD thesis on th… Read More
2015-02-19 22:31
In 1800 only 3% of the world’s population lived in urban areas, yet as the industrial revolution picked up pace in the early 18th and 19th centuries the number of people movi… Read More
2014-12-16 15:51
The last few months have been a blur of conferences, workshops. I attended a fantastic two week course on sensory ecology in Sweden (read about that here and here), I went to London and pre… Read More
2014-08-31 17:18
It’s the start of a new month and that means it’s time again for the Carnival of Evolution and this time it’s a special one, the 75th edition! So all aboard as we jour… Read More
2014-07-27 13:44
A few months ago during the coffee break at an animal behaviour conference I was talking to a colleague about her research when she told me that to suggest that animals could feel fear or be… Read More
2014-07-20 17:29
In the closing paragraph of on the origin of species Darwin famously said that nature was a war in which individuals struggle against each other and the environment for survival. However, w… Read More
2014-06-10 19:47
The power that natural selection has to sculpt both the appearance and the behaviours of creatures so that they intricately and precisely fit their respective envir… Read More
2014-03-12 23:32
When under strong ecological pressure, or when a good opportunity arises, animals have often shown themselves to be surprisingly innovative in how they adapt to new pressures or take advant… Read More
2014-02-16 19:25
I know I’ve been away for a long time (has it really been four months?) but I have a good reason. I have just moved from Durham in the north of England all the way to Wales where I am… Read More
2013-10-30 14:20
It has been known for a long time that whales and dolphins are incredibly intelligent animals but it’s not often we see that intelligence so impressively displayed as when orcas (ofte… Read More
2013-08-24 18:40
The term ‘living fossil’ is often misleadingly used in the popular press to describe species which have, supposedly, stopped evolving. Commonly cited examples include horseshoe… Read More
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