Mastodawn

The observation and analytical study of a captive chimpanzee spontaneously utilizing environmental tools to produce structured, rhythmic instrumental sounds in conjunction with vocal expressions.
#Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #Ethology #Bioacoustics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ebio03272601.html

Chimpanzees can be multitalented musicians

a 26-year-old male chimpanzee, removed floorboards from a walkway and used them to drum while he let out complex and structured sounds like vocal

Dan Stowell 1d ago

New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets

Dan Stowell Mar 16

"Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy" - nice description and videos by Leonie Baier https://theconversation.com/tiny-recording-backpacks-reveal-bats-surprising-hunting-strategy-271996 #bioacoustics

Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy

By listening in on their nightly hunts, scientists discovered that small, fringe-lipped bats are unexpectedly able to efficiently take down prey nearly their own size.

The Conversation

Dan Stowell Mar 11

Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound

BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE

Tasks We are excited to announce the 2026 BioDCASE task...

Christophe Bousquet Mar 5

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

Clemens Pitschke Feb 9

It is realy great that this publication is open access.
Dig into underwater acoustics and up to date research on marine mammals.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77022-7

#BioAcoustics #ecoacoustics #acoustics #nature #science #marinemammals

Marine Mammal Acoustics in a Noisy Ocean

This open-access book explores the potential impacts of noise on marine mammal species such as whales, dolphins, seals, seacows, and otters.

SpringerLink

Clemens Pitschke Feb 7

Next entry in the great #bioacoustics books.
The descriptions of the experiments and the fundamental theories is what makes this book special to me.
Only complaint I have is that some long and winding sentences to describe acoustic phenomena could have been better described as equations.
Still an absolute must read for anyone interested in the topic.

#books #sound #nature #bookreview

Clemens Pitschke Feb 4

January has been quite busy for me, but the good kind of busy.
I am currently working on an application for a project with colleagues from Hamburg which gives me joy and excitement for my work I haven't had in a long time.
During the weekend I was looking into further resoruces on the topics of #ecoacoustics and #bioacoustics and thought I share this:
https://www.are.na/clemens-pitschke/bio-ecoacoustics-resources
On this note: can someone reccomend a course/ training regarding this fields or something related like landscape ecology?

Bio-/ Ecoacoustics resources | Are.na

Collection of current papers and resources on Bio- and Ecoacoustics

Are.na

Dan Stowell Jan 5

"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening #deeplearning

Manuel Gebauer Dec 8

I just noticed that there is a bird sound identifying app in F-Droid since September. It is called whoBIRD and makes use of the BirdNET model by K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University of Technology.

It recognizes me trying to be a bird as a 42 % human whistle. So, maybe it works?

#birds #bioacoustics #FDroid

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

Chimpanzees can be multitalented musicians

Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy

BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE

Marine Mammal Acoustics in a Noisy Ocean

Bio-/ Ecoacoustics resources | Are.na

BirdNET – AI-Powered Sound ID