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The Kalahari Research Centre (Northern Cape, South Africa) is hosting a FULLY FUNDED course on animal behaviour and communication! Check out the flyers below and find out more on their website - exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/applicati… #kalahariresearchcentre #africanbioacoustics #fieldcourse

Exciting Grant Opportunities for ATBC 2025! Students and postdocs, apply for Travel Grants & Fee Waivers to attend the 61st ATBC Meeting in Oaxaca! 📅 Deadline: April 4, 2025 Don’t miss out—apply now! Details: atbc2025.org/call-grants #ATBC2025 #GrantOpportunity

Bats Outsmart Deception! Our new study shows that bats can resolve sensory conflicts to recognize individuals – a remarkable display of cognitive sophistication! 🔗 cell.com/current-biolog…

Dan Riskin from The Bat Signal created an awesome video about our latest article on individual recognition in bats. Check it out! youtu.be/9ihFaauZjIo?fe…

Very happy to share our new paper investigating compositionality in the vocal system of wild bonobos in Science Magazine led by Mélissa Berthet w/Kokolopori Bonobo Research! Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science NCCR Evolving Language science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What Helps Bats Find Roost Boxes? Bats’ experience with roost boxes matters more than enhanced detectability! This highlights the importance of long-term conservation efforts in mitigating the effects of habitat loss. Anja Bergmann journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Join us for the final stage of the 2024-2025 Coller-Dolittle Prize competition on May 15th at 14:00 UTC, online. The shortlisted submissions will be presented, and the award recipient announced. Register here: jeremycollerfoundation.org/events/coller-…

A highly recommended new book by Nachum Ulanovsky mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044998/…

Join the Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel Aviv University for a virtual event on 15th May 2025 at 2PM BST to award the first winner of the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Interspecies Two-Way Communication. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Mother Bats Shape Their Pups’ Vocal Development! Vocal learning isn’t just about listening – it’s about interactions! Our latest study showed that mother bats influence how often their pups practice and how diverse and mature their song syllables are. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

eLife wrote a beautiful dispatch about our study on maternal influences on vocal development in bat pups. eLife - the journal Check it out! elifesciences.org/digests/99474/…

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 📖 Read the full story: rdcu.be/el857 1/n 🧵👇

The inaugural Coller-Dolittle Prize was awarded to the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, scientists Laela Sayigh, Vincent Janik, Frants Havmand Jensen and Peter Tyack, for their long-term research on dolphin whistle communication. Kudos to the whole team! theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Check out the beautiful book Smithsonian Kids published about our research on babbling baby bats! Illustrated by Gavin Scott and written by Paige Towler in collaboration with the Smithsonian Bat Lab. Although it was published last year, I only received my copy a few days ago 💕

Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on nature.com/articles/d4158…

‘About as close to aliens as we’ll ever get.’ Can AI crack animal language? | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

Interested in working with monkeys?🐒 Curious what baby marmoset monkey babbling means?🍼🗣️ We’re looking for a research assistant or a potential master student that will work with us to answer these questions! Please reach out for more information: [email protected]

Historical #EBRS conferences! #BatLife_Europe's just created a new page hosting information about the European Bat Research Symposium #EBRS. They are currently asking for assistance to fully furnish this page with links to previous symposia and abstracts. batlife-europe.info/ebrs/

Heranwachsende Sackflügelfledermäuse brabbeln ähnlich wie Säuglinge. Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt: Je mehr sich ihre Mutter dabei mit ihnen beschäftigt, desto intensiver plappern sie – und desto vielseitiger sind die Laute, die sie von sich geben. ethologisch.de/muetterliches-…