LSM1303 Animal Behaviour Student Blog

When it comes to mate selection and mating, stereotypical images often portray females as being the choosier sex who play hard to get. Males, on the other hand, are "usually persistent" and always “in the mood”. Males tend to mate more as they want to Read More...

A dive guide brought a group of people including children to show them a moray eel in the Cayman Islands. He played with the eel letting it slide around his arm and body. Subsequently, the moray eel went back into a hole in the corals but re-emerged to Read More...

Squirrels! Cute, cuddly, fast, are a few words which come to mind when one mentions 'squirrel'. What we hardly hear of is how wily and cunning they are. I came across an article about squirrels burying their food in the ground. Sounds normal so far right? Read More...

Introduction Cape Penguins ( Spheniscus demersus ) inhabit Cape region of the southernmost part of Africa, and falls under the same species as the African (black-footed) penguins. Their calls resemble a donkey's bray; hence they have been nicknamed jackass Read More...