A busy week with Honours student defences from the lab (and throughout the Department of Biological Sciences).

From our lab:

Margaret Kitney defended a brilliant thesis project on how and whether sex differences alters thermoregulatory behaviours in guppies (The effect of sex on the thermoregulatory behaviour of the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), having spent months watching fish swimming in shuttle boxes and months pouring over tracking algorithm detection processes. Truly a great amount of work and thought went into the thesis writing and explanations.

Natalie Bakker defended an awesome thesis project on bearded dragon cognition (Quantity Discrimination and Detour Task Performance of Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps)), expanding our knowledge of how reptiles think and assess food resources. Months of challenges associated with our “lazy lizards”, but the project came together brilliantly in the end.

Congratulations to both!