At this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival visitors has their eyes opened to the world of nest building! Lauren, Sophie, and Alexis set up an exhibit on ‘Why Do Birds Build Nests?’, inviting both children…
If you went to the Dundee Science Festival you might have caught up with some of the Healy lab! Lauren, Sue, Eira, Alexis, and Sophie spent the day talking and interacting with members of the public, using hand-on…
The Healy lab has been busy over the last few weeks, with several papers being published. Lauren and Sue have published a paper focusing on nest building, the forgotten behaviour (with a couple of cheeky snaps from the…
We’ve had a busy few weeks here at the Healy lab, jetting off to all sorts of conferences: Eira presented not one but two posters for the ESEB meeting at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. Both posters focus…
Our paper ‘Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave patterns’ was published today in The Royal Society Open Science (DOI:10.1098/rsos.150074). People can be individually identified by their…