Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Massive Congratulations to PhD student Hana Merchant for submitting their thesis!! It’s been an enjoyable and productive 4 years, full of mole rats, fieldwork in South Africa, and happy times.

Our new paper is out in Current Biology! And great to have the front cover. African Harrier-hawks have a weird visual field, which we believe is linked to their unusual foraging behaviour. You can read it here!

Our new visual field paper is out in Proc Roy Soc B. Huge congratulations Simon Potier for the massive body of work, and thank you for inviting us to join in. Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology! You can read it here!

Welcome to the new MSc students joining our lab; Tom Elliott, Alex Lamond, Lucy Moore, Lucy Meddings.

Congrats Cecylia on publishing your MSc thesis – out today in Royal Society Open Science, all about chick cognition, metabolic rate, personality and dominance. You can read it here!

Our new paper is out Proc Roy Soc B! All about visual fields in the Anatidae. You can read it here!

Thrilled our paper has been accepted in Current Biology. All about how weird the visual field of African Harrier-hawks is. More to follow.

Congratulations Simon Potier on getting your paper accepted in Proy Soc Roy B, and thank you for involving me in the work. All about the visual fields of owls. More to follow.

Currently on the annual Borneo Fieldcourse in Sabah, where we teach undergraduates all about how to study animal behaviour in a complex environment. We saw our first Slow Lorris yesterday, along with Leopard Cats.

Congratulations Cecylia on getting your MSc work accepted in Royal Society Open Science. All about the relationship between metabolic rate, short-term memory, dominance and personality in chickens.