Sleep is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and yet displays considerable variation in its
extent and form in the wild. Ecological factors, such as predation, competition, and …

Urban wildlife faces a novel set of challenges resulting in selective pressure that can lead to
population-level changes. We studied Australian water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii) from …

Innate antipredator responses are integral for survival in many species, particularly those
which lack parental care. Antipredator responses include both active (fight or flight) and …

Measures of endurance (time to exhaustion) have been used to address a wide range of
questions in ecomorphological and physiological research, as well as being used as a proxy …

Escape behaviour is an extensively studied subject, though escape response of animals
during their inactive (sleep) phase is not well understood. In this study, we compare the …

The records presented here were obtained on four different occasions, from June–
December 2019, in two different locations of the PNC. Upon finding the lizards, we observed …

Sleep is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and yet displays considerable variation in its
extent and form in the wild. Ecological factors, such as predation, competition, and …

The behavioral repertoires of several agamids are well studied and documented. However,
no ethograms have been produced for the Chinese water dragon, Physignathus cocincinus …

The Brazilian Steppe Iguana, Urostrophus vautieri Duméril & Bibron, 1837, is a small-sized
lizard with cryptic habits and rarely observed in nature, resulting in a lack of information on …

Carinascincus pretiosus (O'Shaughnessy, 1874), is one of the most common and
widespread of Tasmania's 17 skink species. As the name suggests, it is semi-arboreal and …