Journal Of Zoology Podcasts

Anti-predator behaviour in giant clams and paternal provisioning in house wrens, denning behaviour in brown bears, behavioural motivation tests in rainbow trout, predatory strategy of a venomous snake, and detection dog surveys for cheetahs.

Leadership in animal groups, how host species determines egg size in the Oriental cuckoo, how a twig-masquerading spider is seen by predators, how signalling in urine-marking domestic dogs could be dishonest and how innate behavioural traits help a lizard to adapt to an urban environment.

Parental care and begging behaviour in poison frogs, egg attendance in cave-dwelling harvestmen, how Atlantic salmon behaviour protects them from external parasites, and an experiment on foraging success in pit-building antlions.

In this episode, we are told how bird collisions with vehicles may be affected by experience, we will learn about the brain of tarantulas and whether they show left-right asymmetry, and we will hear about baiting camera traps in the Amazon.

In this special 50th anniversary issue, estimating the maximum size of giant squids and 3D modelling of lion paws and tracks, colour adaptations in a blue-tailed lizard and how human food resources affect life history strategies in brown bears.

In this episode, how butterflies appear to the eyes of their predators, how bio-logging technology allows us to analyse animal behaviour, and how ants protect seedlings from pests.

In this episode, the mystery of the ‘dead bird’ posture in dinosaur fossils, how an animal’s locomotor performance can vary between different habitats and substrates, and how lions can influence the foraging strategies of spotted hyaenas.

In this episode, we will hear about a cannibalistic salamander that lives in caves, we will learn how to mitigate conflicts between reintroduced lions and the local people, and we are told about nest site selection behaviour in peregrine falcons.

In this episode, we will hear about how European starlings colonised North America, how the burrow structure of rabbits change as they move from the countryside into cities, and why polar bears have smelly feet!.

In this episode, we learn what sound sea-horses make, how urban grey squirrels react to pedestrians in New York and behavioural syndromes in an amphibian.

In this episode, we are told how predators by just their presence are able to affect the behaviour of their prey, we will hear about a particular case of bat pollination in New Zealand, and we learn what mechanisms migratory birds are using to navigate the globe in so-called ‘true navigation’.

In this episode, we will hear about how the behaviour of extinct animals like dinosaurs can be deduced from fossils, we learn how parasites manipulate the behaviour of their hosts, and we are told about new findings on cheetah cub mortality and their effect on conservation planning for cheetahs.

In this episode, reproductive division of labour in eusocial species and how it emerged spontaneously in harvester ant queens, how the ecology of extinct sabretooth predators could be studied by looking at their living analogue such as the southern short-tailed opossum, and a field experiment comparing the effectiveness of two anti-predator strategies, crypsis and aposematism, using artificial prey.

IIn this episode, we will learn about tiger occupancy surveys for tiger conservation, how lion predation on giraffes can be studied by surveying for claw marks on live giraffes, we will hear about a sumo-wrestling frog that uses spines projecting from their hands in combat and mating, and about the production and the functions of blue colouration in animals.

In this episode, we will hear about the African ice rat and its changeable behaviour towards fellow colony members, learn what ‘aggressive mimicry’ is and how it could help us better understand the animal mind. We are also told about how king penguins optimize their diving behaviour for efficient foraging, and how animals learn from each other even when they are members of different species.

In this episode, we learn how prey adjust their anti-predator defences to variable levels of predation risk, whether vocalisations could be used as indicators of animal emotions, we’ll track leopards by GPS for modelling their predation behaviour, and we will hear about a bug that calls its offspring to feed..

In this episode, we hear about analyzing the structure of a bird song and how the blue throat patch of European green lizards signals male quality, and we learn about the habitat and resource use of spider monkeys in Costa Rica, and grazing ungulates in the African savannah.

Predicting the feeding behaviour of an extinct bear and investigating moonlight foraging in African wild-dogs.

A carnivore themed episode, we investigate social and spatial organization of the black-backed jackal, find out more about the prey preferences of the Sumatran tiger, and the Asiatic lion, and we tease apart predator-prey interactions with two anuran tadpole species.

Editorial board member, Rob Williams talks to us about the recent Zoological Society of London symposium, Marine Protected Areas on the high seas and discusses his January Editorial.