Crocodile in Plymouth – (from Tom Ezard, recipient of the highly coveted title of staff contributor of the week, woop woop!)
https://twitter.com/BBCEngland/status/522410706688569344
More on crocodiles, from our resident expert Rob Gandola. They work as a team to hunt prey http://wingedpost.com/2014/10/crocodiles-sophisticated-hunters-work-team-hunt-prey/
Flies are the forgotten pollinators http://urbanpollinators.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/flies-forgotten-pollinators.html
Sexual selection has had a positive effect on male cognitive performance but no effect on females http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1781/20132873
We looked at operant conditioning in BIOL2039 last week. Here’s an example of it in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4N9GSBoMI
Have you taken a good photo of an insect? You could enter it in the National Insect week 2014 insect photography competition. Closing date is 31st October http://www.nationalinsectweek.co.uk/competitions/photo_competition_entry_2014.htm
Ten years ago the remains of a tiny hominin, Homo floresiensis aka the hobbit, was found on Flores. Find out more about it here http://www.nature.com/news/hobbit-1.16159
In the arms race between humans and Ebola, we are currently losing in West Africa http://www.nature.com/news/ebola-by-the-numbers-the-size-spread-and-cost-of-an-outbreak-1.16144
What is conservation agriculture? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13809.html
50 years ago the fossilised remains of a dinosaur were found that were 2.4m long and ended with 20 cm claws. New specimens now reveal the morphology of the rest of the body http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/22/deinocheirus-exposed-meet-the-body-behind-the-terrible-hand/
This isn’t Ecology or Evolution news but I thought it might be interesting to share with you http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/oct/10/10-things-female-students-face-university-misogyny-banter?CMP=fb_gu
Posted By : Judith Lock