JUST PUBLISHED: Understanding Animal Behaviour is a non-fiction graphic novel featuring anoles and other lizards. This isn’t a kid’s book or comic. It is written for adult readers interested in understanding why animals do what they do and how researchers go about studying behaviour.
And its FREE.
Here’s a taster from Chapter 4 on the challenges anoles face when trying to advertise territory ownership in natural environments.
The above graphic narrative is not just about anoles and their behaviour, but the human experience of doing real-world research.
That research was ultimately published across several papers:
- Ord, T. J., R. A. Peters, B. Clucas, and J. A. Stamps. 2007. Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 274:1057-1062.
- Ord, T. J., and J. A. Stamps. 2008. Alert signals enhance animal communication in ‘noisy’ environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:18830-18835.
Over the coming months, more tasters will be posted from Understanding Animal Behaviour that will hopefully be of general interest to readers of Anole Annals, including Jonathan Losos’s classic studies of adaptive evolution and Judy Stamp’s ground-breaking work on why anoles establish territories where they do.
If you’d like a copy of the book, it’s available as a free download.
Read it cover-to-cover or pick chapters as standalone volumes on topics you’re most interested in.
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jacque
What fun …………… I would have loved your “job”.