In a new paper Berthold Hedwig and Adam Bent analysed a new aspect of auditory orientation in crickets. When the amplitude modulation of species-specific acoustic signals is distorted in the transmission channel, signals become difficult to recognise by the receiver. Tolerant auditory pattern recognition systems, which...

The pattern of evolutionary relationships among species is crucial for understanding the diversity of life. Which species share evolutionary descent from a recent common ancestor, and which share one that is more remote? Figuring out this pattern for living species benefits from the presence of many kinds of information...

This week, the sixth edition of Conservation Evidence’s flagship publication, What Works in Conservation , is published. What Works provides a freely-available, comprehensive overview of the expert assessment of evidence for the effectiveness (or not) of management actions collated within Conservation Evidence synopses. It...

The Department is sorry to announce that our former colleague Roger Northfield died on 17th May. Roger started work in the Zoology Department in 1956, and with one short break to work in the States, stayed here continuously until his retirement 51 years later. Everything Roger did was shot-through with his enormous passion...