Category: Sensory Ecology

July 20

Garden flowers in Bee vision

I’ve taken some time in lockdown to photograph the flowers in my garden in human…

July 20

Our latest research published in Current Biology (here) shows how guppies draw attention by turning…

April 5

The micaToolbox is being used by scientists across a huge range of disciplines for analysing…

April 13

We wanted to know why many animals are dichromats (having two types of colour receptor…

January 17

Play our new online game and help our research! Green shore crabs are one of…

January 7

Estimating how visible something is against its background is essential in many studies of animal…

October 13

Burying beetles sniff out small animals that have just died and use the carcass as…

October 3

Kittlitz’s plovers cover their nests with materials to help hide them from predators. In our…

August 15

We worked together with the Natural History Museum to create two displays in their excellent…

June 21

Burnet moths are day-flying moths with striking red and black patterns. They’re highly distasteful to…