Category: Sensory Ecology

April 13

Online games help us understand colour vision and camouflage

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…

June 8

Our new study shows that nesting birds time their escape from an approaching predator depending…

February 1

We have just published a new ground-breaking study confirming the long held assumption that camouflage…

November 1

I took part in a discussion on how animals see the world on Mooney Goes…