Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Postdoc Paddy (Lewin) and I enjoyed writing a Dispatches for Current Biology. Covering two recent papers about bird eye movements during flight, using homing pigeons as model species. You can read it here!

Happy our paper has been accepted in Ecology and Evolution. All about Moorhen vision. All came about thanks to a day off while doing fieldwork in the Seychelles!

Exciting day in the Flight Lab, as we welcomed a Bateleur Eagle. Part of a new collaboration with Millets Falconry.

Congrats (from L to R) Megan, Emily, Angharad, Ayse and Oliver for completing your MBiol project and vivas. You’ve done some great work this year!

Pleased our paper has been accepted in Biology Open. Titled “Allometric Scaling and Social Modulation of Resting Metabolic Rate in a Eusocial Mammal (Heterocephalus glaber)”. And thanks to the usual mole rat collaboration team at QMUL, Pretoria and California.

Our new paper is out in The Journal of Experimental Biology, all about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here. Males and females respond differently to captivity!

Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Congratulations first author Caroline Brighton. You can read the paper here!

Big thanks to postgrad Luca for hosting a lab group social at his. Amazing food and hospitality.

We have some new arrivals coming this spring, as part of Sam Thompson’s PhD. Sam will be working with a variety of duck species, and we visited a duck breeding specialist.