New paper in Current Biology from our collaboration with Scott Taylor on genetics of variation in spatial cognitive abilities in food-caching chickadees. New reference genome, 162 full genomes.
cell.com/current-biolog…

Canyon Treefrog showing off its camo

Sasha is having a bad tail day. #StreetArt #3DChalkArt #pinecone #squirrel #pareidolia

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

Congratulations Michael Reichert!!!
& anyone looking for an amazing postdoc in #AnimalCommunication look no further. Apply now!

For some of us, EVERY day is #WorldFrogDay .

Fascinating new study reveals the impact of water microbial diversity on tadpole neurodevelopment 🌊🦠🧠🐸

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

If you're not talking to your kids about vernal pools...who is?

Theloderma corticale, its common name mossy frog as it resembles moss growing on a rock, blending into its background In rainforests and subtropical forests of Asia

I LOVED this paper on avian cognition, asking why birds commonly show similar cognitive performance to primates despite vastly smaller brain size. It is also wonderfully written (calling a section 'When pigeons dream' is epic). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🏵️The Dimpled Trout Lily is one of many wildflowers found in Georgia during the spring season. These wildflowers are part of the spring ephemerals, which blossom in the early spring sunshine before retreating as the woodland canopy trees burst into full foliage.

#UGASREL

Life finds a way

[📷 u/maesterofwargs]

What if you lesion the hippocampus of male #PrairieVoles and put them in the field?
Caitlyn Finton, PhD Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳

Will they bond (yes)
Will homerange size change (no)
Will it affect monogamous males (not really)
Will it affect non-monogamous males (yup!)

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Amphibian Ark is looking for a communications officer. This is a full-time, fully remote position. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Our latest research is out in Nature Ecology and Evolution!

nature.com/articles/s4155… with Mélanie Couture, Erich Jarvis and Louis Lefebvre

#Nature #Birds #ProblemSolving #Innovation #BehavioralEcology

New paper alert! 'Evidence for individual vocal recognition in a pair-bonding poison frog.' Great work led by (then) undergraduate researcher Molly Podraza of fischer lab 😁🐸 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

We have a new paper out in Biology Letters (The Royal Society). In it, we investigated the link between neuron number and habitat complexity across Puerto Rican anoles🦎🌳

#science #anolis #LGBTQinSTEM #herpetology #neuroethology #neurons #brainevolution
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

I'm on the market for a #postdoc position! If you or someone you know is looking for someone keen on behavioral #ecology , signal evolution (songs, colors, etc), and endocrinology, please let me know! Also quite keen on teaching, as an added bonus!

The three sisters, corn, bean & squash.

The three crops of the Native American mixed cultivation that are anchored in the legend of the three sisters. Traditionally grown together in what we would call a regenerative agricultural system today.

A big congrats to the amazing wildlife photographer Tim Laman Tim Laman - Wildlife Photojournalist for capturing this incredible moment of a Borneo Wallace frog for achieving lift through the rainforest canopy, hovering upon parachute like membranes between its toes!