Anne Peters

Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

Biography

Anne's research areas of interest include behavioural ecology, sexual selection, communication by honest signals, avian colouration, life-history trade-offs, ecological immunology, behavioural endocrinology and telomere ecology.

articles

Social needier: Harsh conditions promote complex sociality in superb fairy-wrens

Research shows that societal cooperation, typical in humans, is also found in the tiny songbird found in our local parks and gardens.

Science

A purple-crowned fairy-wren sitting on a leaf.

The threat to endangered fairy-wrens

A study of purple-crowned fairy-wrens offers lessons for fire management along waterways in tropical savanna ecosystems.

Science