digitalbioacoustics

Owl-natomy: Barn Owls Have Ageless Ears - 2017 Study of Owl Hearing Regeneration (lemmy.world)

I’ve got another study on owl hearing for those of you who have enjoyed some of my past articles. This one looks at the ability of birds to regrow the tiny hairs responsible for mechanoelectrical transduction of soundwaves to nerve impulses and its contribution to preventing age related hearing loss....

Hainan frilled treefrogs' calls partially conform to Menzerath–Altmann's law, but oppose Zipf's law of abbreviation (www.sciencedirect.com)

Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication (www.salon.com)

African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through...

Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language (www.atlasobscura.com)

“Whooo goes there?!” Do owls know who is calling to them? A study on owl vocalization relative to population (lemmy.world)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15757735...

Pooping, Flapping Ears, And Rumbling: The Weird Ways Elephants Get Their Friends' Attention (www.iflscience.com)

Whales are speaking in secret language using ‘alphabet of clicks’ (www.the-sun.com)

Scientists Find an ‘Alphabet’ in Whale Songs (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/16469373

The 35 million-year-old adaptation that helps lemurs sound bigger than they are (www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk)

University of Glasgow study involving parrots gives new insight (www.glasgowtimes.co.uk)

New Research on Animal Communication Shows Their Cultures Are Often Complex and Cumulative (sentientmedia.org)

Recordings of little auk colony reveal more about Arctic seabirds (oceanographicmagazine.com)

Research Shows Baby Bird Development Harmed By Sound Of Cars (www.miragenews.com)

Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Why don’t female crickets chirp? (theconversation.com)

"Incredible" clip shows scientist and octopus "communicating" in the wild (www.newsweek.com)

Invasive plants alter the soundscape of ecosystems (www.earth.com)

Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil (www.theguardian.com)

Superbowl Cross-Post! Owl-natomy: Acoustic Location of Prey / 3D Hearing Research Paper Summary (lemmy.world)

It was recommended by a reader that I share this here. It does seem like the type of thing you’d enjoy from looking at some other posts, and perhaps some of you would enjoy seeing the charts in the full report and possibly be able to ELI5 about some of the more detailed findings that went over my head....

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