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Brush turkeys, bats, and cockroaches are crucial for the environment – including our gardens. Each have fascinating ways of coping in wet weather.
Humans have long struggled to understand the nocturnal world. As environmental change becomes increasingly acute, understanding their lives has never been more critical.
Research has revealed how earless moths manage to avoid bat attacks - by evolving sophisticated acoustic tricks.
These nocturnal insects have amassed an impressive defensive arsenal against bats’ echolocation.
Microphones on the seafloor recorded life under the Antarctic ice for two years – inadvertently catching seal trills and chirps that are above the range of human hearing. Could they be for navigation?
More than 450 long-finned pilot whales are stranded in Tasmania. Saving them is a race against time.
This important discovery demonstrates that cognitive maps are not the exclusive domain of humans and a few other species.
From acoustic holograms to tractor beams.
We tend to think of the oceans as quiet, when in fact they’re anything but. Noise is the “forgotten pollutant”, but the good news is that unlike many other pollutants it can be switched off if we try.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor in Sensory Biology, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow in Marine Science, Griffith University
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Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
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Director, Centre for Marine Science & Technology, Curtin University
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Lecturer, University of Glasgow
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Associate Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Biology, Western University
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Instructor of Natural Sciences, University of Oregon
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Senior Lecturer in Modern and Environmental History, University of Bristol
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Casual Academic, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History, University of Bristol
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PhD student, University of Sydney
