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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Say hello to Australia's newest mammal species: Planigale petrophila. Known only from the rocky plateaus of the Arnhem Escarpment from specimens hidden in museum collections since the 1970s. Photographed here by the inimitable Pat Woolley doi.org/10.1093/zool...

A small greyish marsupial with a very long tail sits on a rock and looks towards the camera with small black eyes

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 July 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn

Lithograph of the Tooth-billed Bowerbird

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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ebradstock.bsky.social @ebradstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My first paper: “Song structure and dialects in a peninsula population of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird” Published in IBIS @bou.org.uk: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.70000 Research in collaboration with the University of Wollongong, @westsyduhie.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social #ornithology 🐦🪶

A satellite map of Bherwerre Peninsula, depicting the locations of 20 Eastern Bristlebird’s and the three dialect groups they belong to.

Several images depicting the spectrograms of three different types of Eastern Bristlebird songs known as A-songs, B-songs and Trill-songs.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 03/02/2026

The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save energy. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/tiny-ra...

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

1st recordings of vocal behavior in female Albert's lyrebird, from @drbackhouse.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social 🐦 documents song from 2 females during nesting and nest construction 🐦 shows ♀️s produce mimicry, conspecific song & alarm calls #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/09/2025

Vocal Mimicry, and Conspecific Song and Calls, in Female Albert's Lyrebirds (Menura alberti) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬ @drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬ ‬ Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

Lithograph of Tooth-billed bowerbirds C1925 by Henrik Gronvold

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Nicola Hanrahan @macroderma.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The ghost bat is one of Australia’s most fascinating — and underrated — native animals. Help it take the spotlight this #ScienceWeek by casting your vote! 👻 🔗 www.abc.net.au/news/science... #GhostBat #SciWeek #ThreatenedSpecies #VoteBats

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Funded #PhD scholarship on the ecology of the eastern horseshoe bat and its sensitivity to the impacts of fire at Western Sydney Univeristy. Link: www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/... #IBRC2025

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Schools | Western Sydney University

Find out more about the activities, disciplines, people and research of the schools which form Western Sydney University.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 10/07/2025

To commemorate this anniversary, we bring together a selection of research articles and news and opinion pieces on mimicry and other forms of deception from across journals in the @natureportfolio.nature.com 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...

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Celebrating Bates

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of Henry Walter Bates, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in butterflies.

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What's next for #mimicry research? A new Viewpoint in @natecoevo.nature.com inspired by Henry Bates 🦋 rdcu.be/et5Tl ‪by @gabrielajamie.bsky.social,‬ @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social & @animalecolab.bsky.social‬ ‬, Eunice J Tan, @colemag.bsky.social‬ & Esther Melamed doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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The past and future of mimicry research

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Walter Bates, an English naturalist who formally introduced ‘mimicry’ as a scientific...

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