🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Need to #camouflage on the move? Easy - simply seek out something that's coloured like you and move along with it! 🐠 Read the latest #trumpetfish instalment here: tinyurl.com/4tb5h5hk @royalsociety.org #shadowing #predator #experiment #marine #movement

And a new chapter begins! I'm thrilled to have started a PDRA role at @biology.ox.ac.uk with @rjpheathcote.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more fish content 🐟

The sun did briefly shine in Cambridge today on my last day in @camzoology.bsky.social. It has been a monumental 5.5 years, both professionally and personally. Words can't express my gratitude towards both the Department and the @marinebehavecol.bsky.social group for making me feel so at home 🐠

🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠 🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology

Antagonistic effects of predator color morph abundance and saliency on prey anti-predator responses

Predators can have different color morphs, but whether morph abundance or saliency is more influential in shaping antipredator behavior in prey remains unc

tinyurl.com

🚨Our new paper is out now in Biological Invasions. Using a #citizen_science approach, we find correlations between #invasive #lionfish abundance, the length of time invaded, and human #hunting pressure in the western #Atlantic and #Caribbean Sea. doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Citizen science reveals relationships between human hunting pressure and the abundance and behaviour of invasive lionfish (Pterois spp.) - Biological Invasions

Predation can shape the distribution and abundance of animals in an environment, with a major source of predation in some systems now coming from humans. However, measuring the influence of human acti...

doi.org

Merry fishmas from the MBE group! 🐟

Check out our recent paper in Current Biology! 👇Here we provide the first direct evidence of how a predator - the trumpetfish - can use ANOTHER ANIMAL for concealment when hunting! 🎺 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4p424mbx