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Animal behaviour, ecology and conservation at Flinders University

Locality: Bedford Park, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8201 3565

Address: Sturt Road 5042 Bedford Park, SA, Australia

Website: https://www.flinders.edu.au

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25.01.2022 We have said before we are fans on the science tv show Scope. On the last episode our scientists got to explain about the effect light pollution has on animals. https://tenplay.com.au/channel-el/scope/season-4/episode-92

24.01.2022 This is going to be amazing!

24.01.2022 Wow! This is great footage! The full show will be on Animal Planet soon. It shows how important our work is but also how passionate scientists are about it.

24.01.2022 What a shocking amount of waste! Thanks Sea Shepherd South Australia for organising the clean up.

22.01.2022 Dr. Katharina Peters and colleagues supervised by Prof. Sonia Kleindorfer make a case for hybrid fitness on Floreana Island. Generally, the Galapagos are considered a hotbed for speciation. In this paper, we show that reverse speciation by hybridisation may confer individuals with a genetic advantage to survive a lethal new species that has invaded the Galapagos Islands. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181616

21.01.2022 What a stunning photo! This is a group of about 20,000 Banded Stilts on Lake George in south-east South Australia.

21.01.2022 Watch our shark expert Charlie Huveneers on Channel 9 explain how sharks use the sun when they attack.

20.01.2022 Interesting artical on white shark research. What will the future bring?

20.01.2022 Ever wondered if shark repellent actually works, or if sharks can hear sounds underwater? Go and check out the talks at the Australian National Maritime Museum this week. With Flinders University shark ecologist Charlie Huveneers

20.01.2022 Are you ready to switch off? Earth Hour 2019 is on Saturday, 30 March at 8.30pm local time.

18.01.2022 Our friends at Cleland Wildlife Park are going viral with this extremely cute video.

17.01.2022 Don't forget to turn off tonight! #earthhour2019

14.01.2022 Honours Student Ashley Langton and Professor Sonia Kleindorfer are the first to study lifespan in Darwin's finches on Floreana Island, Galapagos Archipelago. They found different longevity patterns in different Darwin's finch species, which will inform monitoring programs for conservation. Read the paper here:... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-019-01626-1 See more

13.01.2022 Stunning underwater footage from scientists at work. The Baited Remote Underwater Video System (BRUVS) helps our scientists learn about the ecosystem around the Neptune Islands.

13.01.2022 Having a hard time waking up today? Our scientist Diane Colombelli-Negrel published a paper on penguin nests. The nest type is important for hatching success and thermoregulation in penguins but not to protect against predators. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-019-01636-z

13.01.2022 This might be the laziest skink in Australia. The pygmy blue-tongue skink was believed extinct, until rediscovered in the stomach of a brown snake in 1992. It is endangered due to habitat loss and climate change. Here's an interesting interview with our researcher Lucy Clive

13.01.2022 How much plastic is in the water in SouthAustralia? Flinders University scientist Sophie Leterme wants to know. Help her with her crowdfunding!

12.01.2022 Honours student Tamara Lewis documents intense competition for nest hollows in the vulnerable eastern Regent Parrot in South Australia. Tamara observed 16 different species visiting active Regent Parrot nest hollows as well as nest take-overs by Yellow Rosella. A collaborative project with the Regent Parrot Recovery Team, fellow Honours student Erin Cantor, and supervised by Prof. Sonia Kleindorfer, Tamaras study reveals the bottleneck imposed by limited habitat on nesting... success in eastern Regent Parrots. Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/01584197.2018.1552082

12.01.2022 Ecology in the rainforest is complex and simple at the same time. Turtles have tears and butterflies drink them for the salt. The result is this incredible video by entomologist Phil Torres.

11.01.2022 Our Galapagos bird booklet is published! Written by Sonia Kleindorfer and Katharina Peters from Flinders University plus two co-authors from the Charles Darwin Foundation, all proceeds from sales will support research and conservation work on the Galapagos. Soon, the field guide will be sold online too. Will keep you posted.

10.01.2022 Scope is a very cool kids children's science tv show. Three years ago our Associate Professor Mike Gardner did a piece on living gidgee skinks (starts at 6.28) https://tenplay.com.au/channel-elev//season-3/episode-141

08.01.2022 Our Professor Sonia Kleindorfer is the new scientist in residence at Cleland Wildlife Park. Apart from a great place to visit Cleland is a great place to do research for scientists.

08.01.2022 The "Annual SealSpotter Challenge" starts this Saturday 8 June! Join the challenge and help count as many pups and seals as we can!! The challenge starts 9am Saturday 8 June through to 23 June (AEST). What is the challenge? - To count as many pups and seals as we can in two weeks... - To get friends and family to help out even a few extra images is a big help - To have Citizen Scientists participating in as many countries as we can - Join the Challenge at: www.penguins.org.au/sealspotter

08.01.2022 Who wants to work with us at Flinders University?

08.01.2022 Just over two years ago ABC radio Off Track broadcasted a story on very important lizard research we do. It's still a great listen. https://www.abc.net.au///offtrack/sleepy-lizard-ep/8417824

05.01.2022 Have you ever wondered how we tag sharks for research? Here's a close up look from our Associate Professor Charlie Huveneers.

05.01.2022 Genetic relatedness and kinship relationships play a role in the formation of social communities in Southern Australian bottlenose dolphins! Read about it here:https://academic.oup.com//d/10.1093/beheco/arz033/5416165

05.01.2022 A group of students from Flinders University have spent two weeks in Palau learning about marine tropical ecology, as well as the history, tradition and local language of Palau. Student Zac Bald filmed some pretty things.

05.01.2022 ' To protect the deep, you need to understand it first.' Interesting video on the work of shark researchers.

03.01.2022 A great PhD project opportunity Marine Ecology Research Centre for Australian students Marine Ecology! Project AIM: variation in the timing of migration in individuals humpback whales and how it influences their body condition. This project will include field work along the East and West Australian Coast as well as a training period in the Australian Bight.... For more information contact [email protected]

03.01.2022 This camera is sitting on top of a great white shark and it gives you an impression of how gracefully these creatures move.

02.01.2022 Two of our PhD students and some volunteers are in Exmouth, Western Australia to further our knowledge of bottlenose and humpback dolphin ecology and behaviour. They are doing a great job in a great location.

02.01.2022 Great news in The Advertiser.

02.01.2022 Our researchers are working very hard developing and testing the 'anti shark-bite wetsuit' but it's getting attention from England to South-Africa. And in Australia as well.

02.01.2022 This shows how vulnerable nature is. An invasive fly could wipe out a unique bird species.

01.01.2022 Honours students Erin Cantor and Tamara Lewis carried out the first behavioural studies of the vulnerable eastern Regent Parrot in South Australia! Together with the Regent Parrot Recovery Team and supervised by Prof. Sonia Kleindorfer, Erin identified habitat features important for nesting success and measured parental care of eggs and nestlings. Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/03721426.2018.1552825