Agile Rabbit: Freaks of the animal kingdom
Thu 19 Sep 2024
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Price
£6*
Time
6.10pm
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Price
£6*
Time
6.10pm
From naked mole rats and their teeth digging skills to kickboxing secretary birds, get ready to get your freak on.
No fish can survive without water…unless they’re walking fish, also known as ambulatory fish, whose means of locomotion not only include swimming, but walking, springing, and undulation, too.
Dr. Steve Portugal from the Centre of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour at the Royal Holloway University of London, has long been interested in the curious and peculiar behaviours of our fellow earthly inhabitants.
Join us for this funky Agile Rabbit talk!
Steve Portugal is a comparative ecophysiologist. The common theme of his work focuses on how animals adapt their behaviour and ecology to the challenges of their environment, within the constraints of their own physiological and anatomical limitations. Such questions are particularly important in the light of global environmental change and exploitation of natural resources, in the emerging field of conservation physiology.
From September, Steve will commence his new position as Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford and St Hugh’s College.
Agile Rabbit is on an adventure to make creative events and experiences that engage everyone. The topics that matter to us are the natural and scientific world, global affairs, and their relationship to art and culture.