Principal Research InvestigatorFiona Cross
Animal Cognition
Phone: +6433691797
Internal Phone: 91797
Qualifications
Research Interests
Biology of a mosquito-eating jumping spider (Evarcha culicivora) from East Africa.
Recent Publications
- Taylor LA., Cross FR. and Jackson RR. (2022) Blood-red colour as a prey choice cue for mosquito specialist predators. Animal Behaviour 188: 85-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.003.
- Cross FR. and Jackson RR. (2021) Odour priming of a mosquito-specialist predator's vision-based detouring decisions. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 564: 18-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.12.005.
- Cross FR., Carvell GE., Jackson RR. and Grace RC. (2020) Arthropod Intelligence? The Case for Portia. Frontiers in Psychology 11 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049.
- Cross FR., Jackson RR. and Taylor LA. (2020) Influence of seeing a red face during the male–male encounters of mosquito-specialist spiders. Learning and Behavior 48(1): 104-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-020-00411-y.
- Cross FR. and Jackson RR. (2019) Portia’s capacity to decide whether a detour is necessary. Journal of Experimental Biology 222(15) http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.203463.