Click here (1.4 MB, MP3 format) to hear an ancient CBC radio broadcast (Quirks and Quarks) describing my earier work on the ruff Since 1984, I have studied the ruff, Philomachus pugnax, a sandpiper ...
Behavioural ecology in population and conservation contexts. I focus on the evolutionary ecology of animal mating and parental care strategies and systems. I examine sources of within species and ...
Huxley had been studying the extraordinarily large claw (or chela) of the male fiddler crab, Uca pugnax, and was interested in how the crab grew to produce such an exaggerated trait (Figure 1 ...