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A 3D MRI-based atlas of a lizard brain

scientific article published on 02 November 2018

A multi-locus molecular phylogeny for Australia's iconic Jacky Dragon (Agamidae: Amphibolurus muricatus): phylogeographic structure along the Great Dividing Range of south-eastern Australia

scientific article

A new species of spectacularly coloured flat lizard Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae: Platysaurinae) from southern Africa

scientific article (publication date: 16 July 2015)

A picture of health? Animal use and the Faraday traditional medicine market, South Africa

scientific article

Activity predicts male reproductive success in a polygynous lizard.

scientific article

Age-dependent social learning in a lizard.

scientific article

An integrative framework for the appraisal of coloration in nature

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

AnimalTraits - a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size

scientific article published on 2 June 2022

Animals Traded for Traditional Medicine at the Faraday Market in South Africa: Species Diversity and Conservation Implications

article

Archipelagos of the Anthropocene: rapid and extensive differentiation of native terrestrial vertebrates in a single metropolis

scientific article

At home with the birds: Kalahari tree skinks associate with sociable weaver nests despite African pygmy falcon presence

scientific article published in 2014

Behavioral and morphological traits interact to promote the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics in a lizard.

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Behavioural divergence during biological invasions: a study of cane toads (Rhinella marina) from contrasting environments in Hawai'i. ⬇️

scientific article

Bold New World: urbanization promotes an innate behavioral trait in a lizard

scientific article published in 2019

Breeding biology and the evolution of dynamic sexual dichromatism in frogs.

scientific article

Camouflage and colour change: antipredator responses to bird and snake predators across multiple populations in a dwarf chameleon

article

Chemosensory discrimination of social cues mediates space use in snakes, Cryptophis nigrescens (Elapidae)

Climate Change and Dispersal Ability Jointly Affects the Future Distribution of Crocodile Lizards

scientific article published in 2022

Colour discrimination and associative learning in hatchling lizards incubated at ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ temperatures

scientific article published in 2013

Comparability and repeatability of three commonly used methods for measuring endurance capacity

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Context-specific response inhibition and differential impact of a learning bias in a lizard

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Dispersal of Namaqua Fig (Ficus cordata cordata) Seeds by the Augrabies Flat Lizard (Platysaurus broadleyi)

scientific article published in 1999

Do lizards have enhanced inhibition? A test in two species differing in ecology and sociobiology

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Does rock disturbance by superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) influence habitat selection by juvenile snakes?

scientific article published in 2006

Does social environment influence learning ability in a family-living lizard?

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Does the Lizard Platysaurus Broadleyi Aggregate Because of Social Factors?

scientific article published in 2007

Dominance and social information use in a lizard.

scientific article

Early social environment influences the behaviour of a family-living lizard.

scientific article

Ecology of Southern African Sandveld Lizards (Lacertidae, Nucras)

article

Ecology of Wahlberg's velvet gecko, Homopholis wahlbergii, in southern Africa

article

Ecology of Wahlberg’s velvet gecko, Homopholis wahlbergii, in southern Africa

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2007

Ecology of the Common Barking Gecko (Ptenopus garrulus) in Southern Africa

scientific article published in 2005

Ecology of the Flap-Necked Chameleon Chamaeleo dilepis In Southern Africa

article

Effect of early thermal environment on the morphology and performance of a lizard species with bimodal reproduction

scientific article published on 20 September 2020

Effects of early thermal environment on the behavior and learning of a lizard with bimodal reproduction ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2020

Effects of pregnancy on body temperature and locomotor performance of velvet geckos

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Effects of rearing environment and population origin on responses to repeated behavioural trials in cane toads ( Rhinella marina )

article

Effects of simultaneous polyandry on offspring fitness in an African tree frog

article published in 2011

Egernia lizards

scientific article published on July 2015

Evidence for Concerted and Mosaic Brain Evolution in Dragon Lizards

scientific article

Evidence for Social Learning in a Family Living Lizard

article

Facultative Frugivory in the Cape Flat Lizard, Platysaurus capensis (Sauria: Cordylidae)

article published in 1997

Feeding Ecology of the Concho Water Snake, Nerodia harteri paucimaculata

scientific article published in 1994

Flat lizard female mimics use sexual deception in visual but not chemical signals

scientific article (publication date: 25 February 2009)

Foraging mode in the African cordylids and plasticity of foraging behavior in Platysaurus broadleyi

scholarly article

Foraging modes in lacertid lizards from southern Africa

article

Geographic divergence in dispersal-related behaviour in cane toads from range-front versus range-core populations in Australia

article

Geographic variation in aggressive signalling behaviour of the Jacky dragon

scientific article published in 2015

Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 September 2020

Habitat disturbance, not predation, is all that is required to influence habitat choice in juvenile snakes: A rejoinder to Lill

scientific article published in 2006

High sensitivity to short wavelengths in a lizard and implications for understanding the evolution of visual systems in lizards

scientific article published in 2011

Impact of human disturbance and beliefs on the tree agama Acanthocercus atricollis atricollis in a South African communal settlement

Increased Metal Concentrations in Giant Sungazer Lizards (Smaug giganteus) from Mining Areas in South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on August 28, 2012

Influence of alternate reproductive tactics and pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection on paternity and offspring performance in a lizard

scientific article published in 2013

Influence of prior contest experience and level of escalation on contest outcome

scientific article published in 2016

Influence of spatial environment on maze learning in an African mole-rat

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Interspecific aggression in flat lizards suggests poor species recognition

article

Invasive chameleons released from predation display more conspicuous colors

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Investment in chemical signalling glands facilitates the evolution of sociality in lizards ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Is the behavioural divergence between range-core and range-edge populations of cane toads (Rhinella marina) due to evolutionary change or developmental plasticity? ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Islands in a sea of sand: use of Acacia trees by tree skinks in the Kalahari Desert

article

Isolation rearing does not constrain social plasticity in a family-living lizard

article by Julia L. Riley et al published 7 March 2018 in Behavioral Ecology

Learning ability is unaffected by isolation rearing in a family-living lizard

scientific article published in 2018

Learning from others: an invasive lizard uses social information from both conspecifics and heterospecifics ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Learning in non-avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Learning outdoors: male lizards show flexible spatial learning under semi-natural conditions ⬇️

scientific article published on October 17, 2012

Life on a limb: ecology of the tree agama (Acanthocercus a. atricollis) in southern Africa

scientific article published in August 2002

Lizards and landscapes: integrating field surveys and interviews to assess the impact of human disturbance on lizard assemblages and selected reptiles in a savanna in South Africa

article

Making friends: social attraction in larval green and golden bell frogs, Litoria aurea

scientific article

Male Preference for Large Females in the Lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

scientific article published in 1999

Male dwarf chameleons assess risk of courting large, aggressive females

scientific article

Male flat lizards prefer females with novel scents

scientific article published in 2007

Male mate preference for large size overrides species recognition in allopatric flat lizards ( Platysaurus broadleyi )

Mate Familiarity Affects Pairing Behaviour in a Long-Term Monogamous Lizard: Evidence from Detailed Bio-Logging and a 31-Year Field Study

article

Movement- and attack-based indices of foraging mode and ambush foraging in some gekkonid and agamine lizards from southern Africa

article

Multiple signals in chameleon contests: designing and analysing animal contests as a tournament

Natural selection on social signals: signal efficacy and the evolution of chameleon display coloration

scientific article published in December 2007

Polyandry in dragon lizards: inbred paternal genotypes sire fewer offspring

scientific article

Population Dynamics of the Concho Water Snake in Rivers and Reservoirs

article

Precocial juvenile lizards show adult level learning and behavioural flexibility

scientific article published in August 2019

Predator-specific camouflage in chameleons

scientific article published on August 2008

Prey Chemicals do not Affect Giving-Up Time at Ambush Posts by the Cordylid Lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

article

RETRACTED: Fiery frills: carotenoid-based coloration predicts contest success in frillneck lizards

retracted paper

Runners and fighters: clutch effects and body size drive innate antipredator behaviour in hatchling lizards

scientific article published in 2018

Seeing red: pteridine-based colour and male quality in a dragon lizard

Selected Body Temperature and Thermoregulatory Behavior in the Sit-and-Wait Foraging Lizard Pseudocordylus melanotus melanotus

Sex and boldness explain individual differences in spatial learning in a lizard.

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Sex, androgens, and whole-organism performance in an Australian lizard

article

Sex- and performance-based escape behaviour in an Asian agamid lizard, Phrynocephalus vlangalii

article

Sex-based differences and similarities in locomotor performance, thermal preferences, and escape behaviour in the lizard Platysaurus intermedius wilhelmi

scientific article

Sex-dependent discrimination learning in lizards: A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Sexual dimorphism in conspicuousness and ornamentation in the enigmatic leaf-nosed lizardCeratophora tennentiifrom Sri Lanka

Sexual selection on performance traits in an Australian lizard with alternative reproductive tactics

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Sexual selection predicts brain structure in dragon lizards.

scientific article published in October 2016

Shifting sands and shifty lizards: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of African flat lizards (Platysaurus).

scientific article

Shouting the odds: vocalization signals status in a lizard

scientific article published in 2006

Simultaneous polyandry increases fertilization success in an African foam-nesting treefrog

Sociality in Lizards

Socioecology of the Australian Tree Skink (Egernia striolata)

scientific article

Spatial Distribution and Activity Patterns in African Barking Geckos: Implications for Mating System and Reproduction

article

Spatial Distribution of a Population of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum: Phrynosomatidae) Relative to Habitat and Prey

Spatial Ecology of the Concho Water Snake (Nerodia harteri paucimaculata) in a Large Lake System

article

Spatial and social organization in a burrow-dwelling lizard (Phrynocephalus vlangalii) from China.

scientific article

Sperm Storage in a Family-Living Lizard, the Tree Skink ( Egernia striolata )

scientific article published on 19 August 2021

Street fighters: Bite force, injury rates, and density of urban Australian water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii )

article

Subproblem learning and reversal of a multidimensional visual cue in a lizard: evidence for behavioural flexibility?

article

Tasty figs and tasteless flies: plant chemical discrimination but no prey chemical discrimination in the cordylid lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

article

Territoriality in a snake

scientific article published in 2015

Testing domain general learning in an Australian lizard

article

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

article

The golden mimicry complex uses a wide spectrum of defence to deter a community of predators

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2017)

The loneliness of the long-distance toad: invasion history and social attraction in cane toads (Rhinella marina). ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2017

To run or hide? Age-dependent escape behaviour in the common flat lizard (Platysaurus intermedius wilhelmi)

article published in 2003

Ultraviolet signals fighting ability in a lizard

scientific article

Ultraviolet signals ultra-aggression in a lizard

Uncovering the function of an enigmatic display: antipredator behaviour in the iconic Australian frillneck lizard ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Universal Optimization of Flight Initiation Distance and Habitat-Driven Variation in Escape Tactics in a Namibian Lizard Assemblage

article

When to be neighbourly: differential agonistic responses in the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

article

Why blue tongue? A potential UV-based deimatic display in a lizard

scientific article published in 2018

Why don't small snakes bask? Juvenile broad-headed snakes trade thermal benefits for safety

scientific article published in 2005

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