{"id":3246,"date":"2013-09-16T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3246"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:58","slug":"dr-john-skelhorn","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/dr-john-skelhorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Skelhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>Why are some masqueraders more perfect than others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. John Skelhorn &#8211; University of Newcastle, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masquerading prey species resemble inedible objects found in their local environment, such as twigs, stones and bird droppings. My recent work shows that predators misclassify masquearding prey as the&nbsp;inedible objects that they resemble. However, the degree to which masquearding species resemble inedible objects varies among species, with some species resembling their inedible models more closely than others. In this talk I will discuss a series of experiments investigating why some species of twig mimicking caterpillars resemble twigs more accurately than others, and how this in turn influences their behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biology Departmental Seminar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone welcome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, September 18th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at 3:30 pm in CTTC 4440 Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>meet Dr. John Skelhorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>coffee and tea from 3:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3246","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2013-09-18T00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2013-09-18T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}