New video on our camouflage work

Sep 10, 2014

Arran Frood from the BBSRC (our main funders) has made a lovely 13 minute video about our joint field research in Zambia and South Africa with Exeter University’s Sensory Ecology and Evolution Group on the evolution of egg camouflage, narrated by Jolyon Troscianko: watch it below. Also see this article from the brilliant Guardian blogger GrrlScientist on the associated citzen science project, Egglab, spearheaded by Martin Stevens at Exeter.

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Jess Lund awarded an R. C. Lewontin Grant from the Society for the Study of Evolution

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