Christine Böhmer, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France It is my great honour to serve as Associate Editor for the Journal of Zoology and I am delighted to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you! During my previous career, I have been fortunate to travel around the world gaining work experience in prestigious institutions... Continue Reading →
Studying the sensory ecology of frog-biting midges and their frog hosts using ecological interaction networks
Grafe, T.U., H.H. Ahmad Sah, N. Ahmad, A. Borkent, I. Meuche & O. Konopik, 2018. Studying the sensory ecology of frog-biting midges (Corethrellidae: Diptera) and their frog hosts using ecological interaction networks. Journal of Zoology, vol. 307, pp. 17-27, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12612 The loudspeaker broadcasting a frog call had barely been switched on before a tiny blood-sucking midge silently floated in and landed... Continue Reading →
The giraffe communication conundrum – what do we really know?
H. Kasozi & R. A. Montgomery, 2018, How do giraffes locate one another? A review of visual, auditory, and olfactory communication among giraffes. Journal of Zoology, vol. 306, pp. 139-146, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12604 Communication involves the exchange of information among individuals of the same or different species. It is obvious that communication plays an integral role... Continue Reading →
Open Call for Associate Editors for Journal of Zoology
The Zoological Society of London is looking for active researchers to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Zoology. Journal of Zoology publishes high-quality research papers on all areas of zoology, including animal behaviour, ecology, physiology, anatomy, developmental biology, evolution, systematics, genetics and genomics. We aim to provide a platform for research that tests hypotheses and is... Continue Reading →
A Glimpse at the Progress of Zoological Research from Mainland China in the Recent Decade
Deyan Ge, member of Journal of Zoology editorial board Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China. Email: gedy@ioz.ac.cn It is truly my great honor to give a brief summary on the progress of zoological research from mainland China. In the... Continue Reading →
The stars of Tasmanian caves – what lies behind the silk curtain
Humidity‐dependent mechanical and adhesive properties of Arachnocampa tasmaniensis capture threads Piorkowski, T.A. Blackledge, C.‐P. Liao, N.E. Doran, C.‐L. Wu, S.J. Blamires, and I.‐M. Tso, 2018, Journal of Zoology, vol. 305, pp. 256-266 Navigation is impossible. The rush of the stream is the only sound I can hear and dizzyingly seems to come from all sides. Water is... Continue Reading →
Detection of arboreal feeding signs by Asiatic black bears: effects of hard mast production at individual tree and regional scales
Kahoko Tochigi, Takashi Masaki, Ami Nakajima, Koji Yamazaki, Akino Inagaki & Shinsuke Koike, 2018, Journal of Zoology, vol. 305, pp. 223-231, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12564 Feeding signs give us information about the feeding ecology of animals, and can also provide information on animal distribution or abundance, as well as habitat selection. However, feeding signs do not necessarily directly reflect... Continue Reading →
Introducing a new Editorial Board member – Leszek Karczmarski
I am delighted to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Zoology. I am currently affiliated with the University of Hong Kong, where I established a cetacean ecology research group (http://www.hku-cetacean-ecology.net/), initially based at Swire Institute of Marine Science and currently in the process of becoming an independent research organisation, Cetacea Research Institute. I moved... Continue Reading →
Winners of the 2017 Journal of Zoology ‘Paper of the Year’ award
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 'Paper of the Year' award Ian Clifton, Jeremy Chamberlain and Matthew Gifford with their paper entitled 'Patterns of morphological variation following colonization of a novel prey environment'. This clever study is taking advantage of a natural experiment where diamond‐backed watersnakes (Nerodia rhombifer) had recently colonized... Continue Reading →