Videos from the Meta-Morphosis Project team, including high-speed videos of salamanders eating above and below water.
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?…
Patricia Teixidor interviews the Meta-morphosis team for an in-depth explanation of the project and its relevance to amphibian conservation, including a behind-the-scenes look at the collections and science laboratories at the Natural History Museum of Bern.
Watch this salamander attempt and fail (twice!) to catch its food.
Axolotls at different stages of ontogeny, including suction feeding underwater, before and after applying Deeplabcut for automated feature tracking.
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…
A Pyrenean newt (Calotriton asper) feeding feeding above water.
An olm (Proteus anguinus) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
A larval frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
An adult axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
An adult northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) feeding above water, recorded using high-speed video.
