Metamorphosis can have a high cost for animals since during the transition, an organism can become weaker and more vulnerable to predators. But there are benefits of metamorphosis that may outweigh the costs. Here we share the findings of our new study, published in Biology Open, investigating the impact of metamorphosis and size on the aquatic feeding kinematics of the Iberian ribbed newt.
Do you remember when we filmed prey-capture sequences of olms and Pyrenean brook newts at the Moulis Laboratory Cave? Here we share results of those and new experiments, just published in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A.
This blog post summarizes our paper entitled Testing the Impact of Prey Presentation Method on the Feeding Kinematics of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ambystomatidae published in Journal of experimental Zoology – Part A Standardizing prey capture records is a tricky task!…
This blog post summarizes our recently published paper in Biology Open, in which we explored how size and developmental stage affected the feeding kinematics of larval, juvenile and adult Ambystoma mexicanum (axolotl). Peadomorphic species: are the adults just big larvae?…
Photos from our field trip in the Ozarks of Arkansas, where in a single day we encountered more than seven species of salamanders.
Do you like caving ? In early September, Anthony Herrel and I went to Moulis (Ariège, France) to visit the CNRS laboratory cave part of the SETE, hosted by our collaborator Olivier Guillaume, without whom this would not have been…
Why salamanders are so special? Were you aware that Salamanders present the most important diversity of developmental strategies among vertebrates? Most salamander species have what we call a biphasic life cycle, meaning that, like the frogs, eggs are laid in…
We traveled to the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States to catch and film salamanders! In this gallery we share photos of our fieldwork and how we set up the camera and lights to film feeding behaviours.
To document the diversity of feeding strategies among salamanders we're using high-speed video to capture feeding behaviors from live salamanders. In this photo gallery we share photos of how we care for our live salamanders and prepare them to take center stage for filming.
