Interested in how to study #AnimalCommunication, especially in #meerkats? Here is a paper for you in #MethodsInEcologyAndEvolution @MethodsEcolEvol
#animal2vec and #MeerKAT: A self-supervised #transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for #bioacoustics
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210x.70218
Today I...
1. Read a book, Art is Art by Ann Kappes, which is about Mad and neurodivergent and disabled artists and their work.
2. Also read a National Geographic article about meerkats studied by the Kalahari Meerkat Project. These are the meerkats in Meerkat Manor and other documentaries. There were some cute photographs.
3. Found lots of other books and magazines to read on my library's ebook app.
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #books #reading #meerkat #meerkats
A group of meerkats standing vigilant, scanning for predators, in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.
Source:
Animal Behaviour, A Very Short Introduction, 2017
All was in readiness. The plan was foolproof. Within days, the loyal subjects of Space Emperor Meerk the Malevolent would emerge from their sleep capsules and subjugate the helpless Earthlings.
They suspect nothing, the fools…
Christophe Bousquet
Ben The Musing Meerkat
Rüdiger Benninghaus
Kristof Zerbe
Rosy
earthling
Andy B
Keeya
Jura Kuba
CUTETROPOLIS