Latest gidgee skink research
Newest papers on Egernia stokesii in the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically.
- Tiliquin lizards as a model vertebrate system for understanding the emergence of societies
Martin J. Whiting, Geoffrey M. While · Animal Behaviour · 2025-12 · open access
The Tiliquini skinks are a clade of lizards that include multiple species that live in long-lasting, territorial groups. Memberships among group-living species range from simple nuclear families to larger, more complex groups containing multiple generations of offspring and sometimes, unrelated…
- Unresolved haemosporidia of the Australian skink, Egernia stokesii.
Zechmeisterová K, Gardner MG, Široký P · Parasitology research · 2024-05 · open access
The Australian skink Egernia stokesii had been recognised as a host of two species of Plasmodium, Plasmodium mackerrasae and P. circularis; nevertheless, molecular data are available for only a single haemosporidian species of this host. Its sequences are labelled as "Plasmodium sp." or "Plasmodium…
- Ecological Considerations When Designing Mitigation Translocations: An Australian Reptile Case Study.
Bradley HS, Craig MD, Tomlinson S et al. · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023-08 · open access
Translocation science has made considerable progress over the last two decades; however, reptile translocations still frequently fail around the world. Major knowledge gaps surround the basic ecology of reptile species, including basic factors such as habitat preference, which have a critical…
- Sex identification in Australian skinks ( Egernia stokesii , E. hosmeri , E. striolata ) using cloacoscopy.
Knotek Z, Oliveri M, Cermakova E et al. · Veterinarni medicina · 2023-06 · open access
Thirteen adult healthy captive skinks, six Gidgee spiny-tailed skinks ( Egernia stokesii ), three Hosmer's spiny-tailed skinks ( Egernia hosmeri ) and four tree crevice-skinks ( Egernia striolata ), were submitted to the study. The weight of the animals ranged from 28 g to 146 g. All skinks were…
- Lizards lack speed-accuracy trade-offs in a quantitative foraging task when unable to sample the reward.
Greis LM, Ringler E, Whiting MJ et al. · Behavioural processes · 2022-09 · open access
To make decisions, animals gather information from the environment in order to avoid costs (e.g., reduced survival) and increase benefits (e.g., foraging success). When time is limited or information is insufficient, most animals face a speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) - they have to balance the…
- Predators in a mining landscape: Threats to a behaviourally unique, endangered lizard
Bradley HS, Craig MD, Tomlinson S et al. · Austral Ecology. · 2022-08 · open access
- Revealing microhabitat requirements of an endangered specialist lizard with LiDAR.
Bradley HS, Craig MD, Cross AT et al. · Scientific reports · 2022-03 · open access
A central principle of threatened species management is the requirement for detailed understanding of species habitat requirements. Difficult terrain or cryptic behaviour can, however, make the study of habitat or microhabitat requirements difficult, calling for innovative data collection…
- Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard
Birgit Szabo, Daniel W. A. Noble, Kaitlin J McCloghry et al. · Behavioral Ecology · 2021-02
- Learning simple and compound stimuli in a social lizard (Egernia stokesii).
Szabo B, Noble DWA, Whiting MJ · Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2021-01
- Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks
Birgit Szabo, Sebastian Hoefer, Martin J. Whiting · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2020-09 · open access
Abstract Inhibitory control, the inhibition of prepotent actions, is essential for higher-order cognitive processes such as planning, reasoning, and self-regulation. Individuals and species differ in inhibitory control. Identifying what influences inhibitory control ability within and between…
- United in adversity: Aridity and cold influence aggregation behaviour in a social lizard, Egernia stokesii
Johnston GR, Lanham EJ, Bull CM · Austral Ecology. · 2020-06
- Fine‐scale genetic structuring in a group‐living lizard, the gidgee skink (Egernia stokesii)
Pearson SK, Johnston GR, Bull CM et al. · Austral Ecology. · 2020-06
- Scat on the doorstep: Refuge choice in a group‐living lizard is influenced by the presence of scat piles
Thompson SA, Pearson SK, While GM et al. · Austral Ecology. · 2020-06
- Dominance and aggression in captive gidgee skinks (Egernia stokesii)
Holly Baines · Herpetological Journal · 2019-04
- Selection outweighs drift at a fine scale: Lack of MHC differentiation within a family living lizard across geographically close but disconnected rocky outcrops.
Pearson SK, Bull CM, Gardner MG · Molecular ecology · 2018-04
- Genes and Group Membership Predict Gidgee Skink (Egernia stokesii) Reproductive Pairs.
Pearson SK, Godfrey SS, Schwensow N et al. · The Journal of heredity · 2017-06
- Data from: Genes and group membership predict gidgee skink (Egernia stokesii) reproductive pairs
Sarah K. Pearson, Stephanie S. Godfrey, Nina Schwensow et al. · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2017-03
- Larger lizards live longer in the group-living Egernia stokesii
Sarah K. Pearson, Stephanie S. Godfrey, C. Michael Bull et al. · Australian Journal of Zoology · 2016-08
- MHC genotyping from next-generation sequencing: detailed methodology for the gidgee skink, Egernia stokesii
Sarah K. Pearson, Tessa M. Bradford, Mina Ansari et al. · Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia · 2016-07
- Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-eastern Queensland.
John Leslie Dowe · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2016-01
- Fine-scale spatial structuring as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism in the social skink Egernia stokesii
M. Gardner, Stephanie S. Godfrey, Aaron L. Fenner et al. · Australian Journal of Zoology · 2012-12
- Selection of artificial refuge structures in the Australian skink, Egernia stokesii
Corinne L. Mensforth, C. Michael Bull · Pacific Conservation Biology · 2008-03
- The impact of nematode parasites on the behaviour of an Australian lizard, the gidgee skink Egernia stokesii
Aaron L. Fenner, C. Michael Bull · Ecological Research · 2008-01
- Who is sitting next to me? Relatedness between next neighbours in common lizards
Sylvia Hofmann · Amphibia-Reptilia · 2008-01
- Optimising the design of artificial refuges for the Australian skink, Egernia stokesii
Evy Ayu Arida, C. Michael Bull · Applied Herpetology · 2008-01
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