John Endler and team have come up with a new way to test animal colour vision based on methods to determine whether humans are ‘colour blind’, and they demonstrate how this method works with triggerfish.
We value the time and expertise of our reviewers and would like to publicly thank all those who have contributed to our peer review process in the past year.
Trained macaques that can walk on two legs never seemed to run, but Naomichi Ogihara and team show that they run all the time, although their legs are too springy for them to get off the ground, and they can take off like runners when moving at top speed.
Danielle Levesque is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine, USA, where she studies hibernation and torpor in mammals. She told us how her research has taken her to Madagascar and Borneo, and why she thinks it is important to learn coding.
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Prize winners Till Harter, Mike Sackville and Dave Metzinger
We are delighted to announce the shortlist of papers nominated by the journal Editors for the 2018 award. Featuring topics as wide-ranging as the development of oxygen transport in snapping turtle embryos, the factors that cause cold flies to fall into a coma and the visual features that influence flying hoverflies, the shortlist celebrates the journal's diversity. Special congratulations go to Colin Brauner's team at the University of British Columbia, winner of this year's Outstanding Paper Prize.