In November 2008 Dr Andrea Manica was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. These prizes are awarded to outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study.
Size Matters - The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010
8 August 2013
Look out for two members of the Department in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Karin Moll from the Insect Biomechanics Group and Tim Cockerill from the Insect Ecology Group both gave demonstrations in the first lecture, entitled 'Why Elephants Can't Dance'.
Cross-dressing vertebrae: how sloths got their long neck
8 August 2013
From mice to giraffes, mammals are remarkable in that all but a handful of their 5000 species have exactly seven vertebrae in the neck. Among the few that deviate from this number are three-toed sloths, which may have up to ten ribless vertebrae in the neck.
This photograph, taken by Tim Cockerill a PhD student in the Department's Insect Ecology Group, was a runner-up in the British Ecological Society Photographic Competition 2010.
Trawl fishing surviving through sale of previously discarded fish
8 August 2013
Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value fish also caught in the large, indiscriminate nets).
Just as afternoon tea is traditional in England but not in France, different groups of meerkats have different ways of doing things, Cambridge zoologists have found.
