16-Feb-2023
#Whales give up singing to fight for love

Male whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard are giving up singing to attract a mate, switching instead to fighting their male competition.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979939
#science #WhaleSong #behaviour #SoundScapeEcology

12-Jan-2023
#Noise from urban environments affects the color of #songbirds’ beaks

Study first to test effects of urban noise on cognitive performance and beak coloration during #development
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976380

#ecology #SoundscapeEcology

12-Jan-2023
#Dolphins “shout” over loud underwater noise to complete a cooperative task
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975752 #MarineBiology #SoundscapeEcology #environment #noisePollution

Many Moths Speak Up to Ward Off Bats
"Investigating a community of moths in Ecuador, Barber and Kawahara also found evidence of complex acoustic mimicry, featuring various combinations of moths—some jammers, some warners, some that do both, and some that make warning noises even though they aren’t poisonous—all copying one another’s signals."
#EnvironmentalStudies #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology
https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/many-moths-speak-up-to-ward-off-bats-70686

Turtle Vocalizations Reframe Origins of Auditory Communication
"Prior to the current study, many of the included species “were considered to be mute....By listening carefully to recordings from 53 species...the team reached a different conclusion: that vocalization is more widespread than previously thought, and that “the sounds that turtles are making have the same evolutionary origin as our own vocal communication”
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #bioacoustics
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/turtle-vocalizations-reframe-origins-of-auditory-communication-70689

Animals Are Shape-Shifting in Response to a Warming World
Forced to respond to a climate that’s changing faster than it ever has, it remains unclear whether species’ adaptations can keep pace.
#EnvironmentalStudies #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/animals-are-shape-shifting-in-response-to-a-warming-world-70869

Save the (White) Whales: Whalesong, the Cetacean Sensorium, and Exceptional Brains
Christina Dunbar-Hester
"I tune into the soundwork of cetacean communicability and whalesong in US environmental activism beginning around 1970... whales were assigned value due to possessing racially coded “hyperbrains,” and that listening for racialization can add nuance to anthropomorphism...." #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #HistSTM #HistSci
https://online.ucpress.edu/res/article-abstract/3/4/433/195037/Save-the-White-WhalesWhalesong-the-Cetacean

Noise pollution is a menace to humanity – and a deadly threat to animals.
The range of negative effects caused by marine noise pollution is staggering: delayed development, hampered reproduction, stunted growth, distorted migration paths.
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/noise-pollution-is-a-menace-to-humanity-and-a-deadly-threat-to-animals

Nogales Coyotes
Bill Evans
"Song from pack near Nogales, AZ 6Sep22. Picture shows lights from the cities of Nogales (AZ and Sonora) about ten km south of the recording site."
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #Coyote
https://soundcloud.com/user-830174402/nogales-coyotes

Science is making it possible to ‘hear’ nature. It does more talking than we knew
"we should not forget about the pressing challenge of noise pollution, the reduction of which can have immediate, positive and significant impacts for non-humans and humans alike. Hushing the human cacophony is a major challenge of our time"
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #EnvironmentalStudies #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/science-hear-nature-digital-bioacoustics

Whispers from the deep sea: the subtle sounds of hydrothermal vents #ASA183 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/973102 #SoundscapeEcology #DeepSea #LifeOnTheEdge #acoustics

My latest feature in Current Biology, issue 23, covers the evolution of acoustic communication in animals, which may have started much earlier than previously thought. Out now, blog entry contains magic link for free access: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2022/12/soundscape-evolution.html #Science #SoundscapeEcology #ecology #evolution

Ways of Listening to Forests
"We have curated a series of audio sequences exploring four different modes:
forest bathing
field recording
sonification
storytelling
Each sequence contains a brief introduction followed by several exercises, practices or projects for you to explore"
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology
http://forestlistening.publicdatalab.org/