Episodes
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
194 Mighty Morphing Salamanders
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Some species come in different colour morphs, but how do species maintain these different morphs? Do they end up behaving differently? This episode we look at the territorial behaviour of salamanders in North America, and check in on a whole bushel of tiny chameleons for the Species of the Bi-week.
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Main Paper References:
Ryan JM, Kuchta SR, Watling JI, Hickerson C-AM, Anthony CD. 2024. Color Polymorphism and Phylogeographic Variation of Agonistic Behavior in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Herpetologica 80. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-22-00037.
Species of the Bi-Week:
Hughes DF, Behangana M, Lukwago W, Menegon M, Dehling JM, Wagner P, Tilbury CR, South T, Kusamba C, Greenbaum E. 2024. Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa’s Albertine Rift. Zootaxa 5458:451–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1.
Editing and Music:
Podcast edited by Alex – https://www.fiverr.com/alexanderroses
Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson
Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy
Other Music – The Passion HiFi, https://www.thepassionhifi.com
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