Department of Zoology, Cambridge

Small fish hides behind other bigger fish to sneak up on its prey

Applications to attend the 2024 Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science are now OPEN and close on 6 September

Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

TWO elephants in Cambridge? Our Asian elephant stands at 9 feet tall - it appeared in the opening sequence of the director's cut from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. 🐘🐘🐘 Museum entry FREE.

How can we reduce harm to wildlife during timber production? To highlight Gianluca Cerullo Conservation
studies dung beetle and birds’ responses to varied harvesting techniques in the tropics, from logging rainforests to getting wood from different timber plantations.

Knowing your ants from your anteaters Are wildlife documentaries showing us the ‘real’ natural world?

Fascinating new research

The complete synaptic-resolution connectome of an insect brain has been mapped. This brain, which contains 3016 neurons and 548,000 synapses, is the most complex brain ever mapped in its entirety.

Read more about this achievement from Marta Zlatic’s group (including postdoc Michael Winding) and Albert Cardona’s group, both in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division alongside Joshua T. Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/complete-synaptic-resolution-connectome-of-an-insect-larval-brain/

Lovely to showcase our Part II Zoology Study programme at the Open Day yesterday

Sign up for our annual Equality and Wellbeing Lecture to hear why visiting a museum is good for everyone. https://equality_and_wellbeing_lecture2023.eventbrite.co.uk/

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Meet Alfred Russel Wallace, born 200 yrs ago on 8 Jan 1823. Wallace AND Darwin independently arrived at similar conclusions on the theory of evolution by natural selection, but they did not work alone. Find out more at this FREE online talk on Wed 8 Feb at 7pm from the Museum's Assistant Director, Jack Ashby. http://ow.ly/F0Yk50Mh9ac
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Don’t miss out on this event!

Meet your host for next week's Winter Wildlife livestream - Dr Roz Wade. Roz will be broadcasting live from the Museum, chatting to Dr Emily Mitchell plus presenting some mini- films on animals with claws & showing some of the amazing creative work from our young zoologists. Don't miss it! Thurs 8 Dec at 7pm ONLINE. http://ow.ly/sjzr50LQSz3

Come along to the Job Fair, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-jobs-fair-tickets-178281152727 Cambridge (16 November 10-1pm) Guildhall, find out about professional services jobs of Zoology, Cambridge

Bitch: On the Female of the Species with Lucy Cooke. Talk & Q+A, by Lucy Cooke on her recent best-selling book ‘Bitch’, which re-evaluates s*x roles, s*xual identity and s*xuality in animals

📢 We are absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for the 😊 award again this year! It's great to be recognised as one of the best family friendly museums in the UK - thanks to our Museum team and amazing volunteers! 😍 http://ow.ly/xp1150JJqPm

How do caterpillars walk across even the slipperiest of leaves?

Simon Chen from Department of Zoology, Cambridge will be telling us how they do it at our next talk - this Sunday 12th June at 2.30pm.

Live in-person talk in the Classroom for those visiting the Garden & also live-streamed.

For more information and to sign up for access: https://bit.ly/3tiHbwG

An exciting find by our Assistant Director of the Museum of Zoology and former Part II Zoology student Jack Ashby.

Discovered: 150-year-old platypus and echidna specimens that proved some mammals lay eggs The specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, were discovered in the stores of Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology.

Six new species of tiny frog discovered in Mexico "We’re really excited to have discovered six new frog species that are completely new to science." Thumbnail sized and without a tadpole stage, they live in a secret world on the forest floor.

Professor Rebecca Kilner inspires Year 6 On Friday 28 February, we had the privilege of welcoming Professor Rebecca Kilner to the Fitzwilliam Building to deliver a talk to our Year 6 pupils on her research into the evolution of burying beetles. Rebecca is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the....

Four fantastic women from the dept will be talking about their work. Dr Rahia Mashoodh, Dr Kate Criswell, Dr Emily Mitchell and Dr Elia Benito Guitierrez. It should be a great evening of lively and interesting talks. Sign up now.

Join us to celebrate on 8 March when we bring together four amazing female scientists to talk about their research and answer your questions. This online event is FREE so sign-up now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-women-in-science-for-international-womens-day-2022-tickets-254555722017
International Women's Day

Mussels to the masses Cambridge scientists think that farming clams and mussels – with the help of a few innovations in food production and processing – could be the next big thing to provide sustainable nutritious food to the masses.

Lillian Wang, a third year Natural Sciences student at Murray Edwards, has written for our blog about her summer research experience with Beijing Normal University investigating the behavioural ecology of the Kentish plover shorebird.

Read more: bit.ly/3EEYtaI

Department of Zoology, Cambridge