Zoology

By La Trobe University

Podcasts on the discussions of the evolution of animal diversity at individual, population and community levels with a particular focus on animal physiology, ecology and behaviour.... more

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The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Zoology episodes:

June 04, 2014 Biomechanics of Insect and Bird Flight
Dr Sridhar Ravi (Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow, RMIT University) talks about how insects and birds fly, in particular the flight of bumblebees through an aerodynamic obstacle course and hummingbirds flying through discrete and continuous aerial disturbances.
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46min
May 21, 2014 Why we Study Insects
Why do we study insects? They’re the most diverse group of organisms in the world, and depending on who you ask there’s anywhere between two to thirty million species. Dr Ken Walker (Curator of Entomology, Melbourne Museum) talks about his role working with insects, and shows off some of his impressive bug collection.
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17min
April 10, 2014 Wildlife in Madagascar
Dr Richard Loyn (Research Fellow in Zoology, La Trobe University) on the wildlife of Madagascar, where wildlife conservation competes with food production, poverty, development, population explosion and survival.
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42min
April 10, 2014 Wildlife in Madagascar (handout)
Dr Richard Loyn (Research Fellow in Zoology, La Trobe University) on the wildlife of Madagascar, where wildlife conservation competes with food production, poverty, development, population explosion and survival.
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March 05, 2014 How Birds Sleep
Dr John Lesku (Zoology, La Trobe University) on what can be learnt from looking at how birds sleep.
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15min
February 27, 2014 The Changing Human Sleep Condition
How has human sleep changed since the invention of the light bulb?
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3min
October 30, 2013 Presence-Absence Information in Ecology
Assoc Professor Melodie McGeoch (Biological Sciences, Monash University) frames spatial ecology’s ‘pit-trap’ of diminishing returns in data collection and detailed how she and her colleagues developed and tested a model to fill the sampling short fall.
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40min
October 29, 2013 Presence-Absence Information in Ecology
Assoc Professor Melodie McGeoch (Biological Sciences, Monash University) frames spatial ecology’s ‘pit-trap’ of diminishing returns in data collection and detailed how she and her colleagues developed and tested a model to fill the sampling short fall.
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40min
October 10, 2013 Chemical Communication in Insects
Professor Mark Elgar (Evolution and Behaviour Group, University of Melbourne) on signals, cues and receivers in communication amongst insects, focusing on ants.
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48min
August 01, 2013 The Effects of Urban Noise on Birds
Dr Dominique Potvin (Behavioural and Population Ecologist, Museum Victoria) on the effects that the environment has on acoustic communication and population genetics of birds.
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42min

FAQs about Zoology:

How many episodes does Zoology have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.