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A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes

19 July 2016

' Restless Creatures ', a new book from Matt Wilkinson A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes. 'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carries you from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale, from the swim-cycle of spermatozoa, to why skipping works...

Sir Quentin Blake reveals new artwork at Cambridge's Museum of Zoology

12 July 2016

On Monday 11 July 2016 children's illustrator Sir Quentin Blake returned to Cambridge to reveal the illustrations he has created for a series of exterior blinds for the University Museum of Zoology. The blinds, which display Sir Quentin's drawings to the outside world, will shield the museum's exhibits from sunlight as...

Tim Clutton-Brock's latest book 'Mammal Societies' is published

31 May 2016

MAMMAL SOCIETIES - published on 27 May 2016 To understand the evolutionary processes that have led to the development of human societies, it is necessary to appreciate the causes and consequences of contrasts in social organisation in other mammals. Over the last fifty years, behavioural biologists have documented the...

Raising the Whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

29 April 2016

On Thursday 28 April 2016 Professor Jim Secord delivered a lecture to alumni, present staff and students of the Department. The lecture is part of a series of events scheduled to celebrate 150 year anniversary of the establishment of the Chair and Department of Zoology in Cambridge. Prof Secord was introduced by Head of...

Threat of novel swine flu viruses in pigs and humans

26 April 2016

A new paper 'The global antigenic diversity of swine influenza A viruses' from Dr Nicola Lewis. The wide diversity of flu in pigs across multiple continents, mostly introduced from humans, highlights the significant potential of new swine flu strains emerging, according to a study to be published in eLife . While swine flu...

A damn close run thing (as Wellington probably did not say)

22 April 2016

Just published in Royal Society Open Science is a paper with the provocative title ‘Rat eradication comes within a whisker! A case study of a failed project from the South Pacific’. Written by Bill Amos and Michael Brooke of the Department of Zoology, Hazel Nichols of Liverpool John Moores University and Tom Churchyard of...

Baboons queue for food - report by Alecia Carter

20 April 2016

Alecia Carter's research with baboons showing that they form orderly queues for food, can be seen in this short clip from the BBC News website. Animals can access information by paying attention to other individuals in their group. Our latest research shows that such "social" information flows as predicted through baboon...

Sir David Attenborough abseils down building bearing his name

7 April 2016

Sir David Attenborough has been speaking of his pride after a new global conservation hub was named after him at the University of Cambridge . Sir David, who abseiled down the building yesterday, said: "By bringing together leaders in research, practice, policy and teaching, we stand the greatest chance of developing the...

Best Student Talk prize for Syuan-Jyun Sun

4 April 2016

Many congratulations to Syuan-Jyun Sun from the Behavioural Ecology Group who won the Best Student Talk prize at the Easter Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour meeting, describing his work on the evolutionary interactions between burying beetles and their mites.

Crawling with Life: Flower drawings from the Henry Rogers Broughton Bequest

1 April 2016

Crawling with life Spiders, snails, beetles, butterflies, moths, frogs and lizards are just some of the living creatures painted amongst the flowers in the Museum’s botanical paintings and drawings. See superb watercolours by the intrepid 17th century German naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian and her tutor...

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A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes

Sir Quentin Blake reveals new artwork at Cambridge's Museum of Zoology

Tim Clutton-Brock's latest book 'Mammal Societies' is published

Raising the Whale: defining zoology at Cambridge

Threat of novel swine flu viruses in pigs and humans

A damn close run thing (as Wellington probably did not say)

Baboons queue for food - report by Alecia Carter

Sir David Attenborough abseils down building bearing his name

Best Student Talk prize for Syuan-Jyun Sun

Crawling with Life: Flower drawings from the Henry Rogers Broughton Bequest

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