Department of Zoology, Cambridge

Dive into the research 👉 https://bit.ly/3OpZOIz

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?

These river mussels sq**rt water jets for up to 6 hours! But how does it help to boost their chances of reproductive success? Department of Zoology, Cambridge Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge St Catharine's College Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Mussels #Animals #Zoology #Research

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