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Wildlife trade bans not the only option to reduce pandemic risk
Researchers at the RVC, Griffith University and TRAFFIC, suggests existing systems for food safety, rather than broad, untargeted bans on wildlife trade, are key to preventing the next pandemicA new study from a team of researchers at the Royal Veterinary College, Griffith University and …
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Royal Veterinary College enables students to learn from virtual veterinary experiences in a new phone app
The free app, developed by the VetCompass team at the Royal Veterinary College supports mixed-reality veterinary experience and learning -
How to use VetCompass
App offering students a virtual veterinary study experience with typical caseloads treated in the real-world of first opinion veterinary practice -
How bats fly
Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the USA have published their work about the flight performance of insectivorous bats in a special flight edition of Philosophical Transactions of the …Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the …
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How the penguin got its waddle
A recent experiment at the London Zoo undertaken by Professor John Hutchinson and James Proffit (of the University of Texas at Austin) is featured in The New Yorker. The experiment involved recording the forces that penguins exerted with their …A recent experiment at the London Zoo undertaken by Professor John Hutchinson and James Proffit (of …
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How do birds react to disturbances when airborne?
Animal flight researchers in the Structure and Motion Laboratory have been awarded a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study how birds react to disturbances when airborne. The grant, awarded to Dr Richard Bomphrey and Dr … -
How did some large dinosaurs’ bodies develop?
Research using computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs to examine the evolutionary history of their body shape -
New study explains how fish got their fingers
New analysis of anatomical evidence shows how the limbs of land vertebrates (such as mammals and reptiles) originated from the fins of water-bound fishes. -
How cheetahs find each other in their vast home ranges in Botswana
Researchers from the Structure and Motion Lab have published a paper on how cheetahs find each other in their vast home ranges in Botswana. Dr Tatjana Hubel, Prof Alan Wilson and collaborators from Cheetah Conservation Botswana tracked a coalition …Researchers from the Structure and Motion Lab have published a paper on how cheetahs find each …
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Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds
Newly discovered avian suspension system has implications for bio-inspired aircraft