Paper alert: southern right whale - tohorā food+microbiome study led by Aashi Parikh: Poo DNA from NZ🇳🇿 Aus🦘South Africa🇿🇦 calving grounds + 🇿🇦 feeding ground 🐳 eat LOTS: Decapoda (incl. 🦀 🦞-larval/small ones probably), Copepods, krill Microbiome 🦠links to diet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz

southern right #whales in #NZ & #Australia are a conservation success story & our new paper shows their offshore feeding grounds if the #highseastreaty #bbnj is ratified we can protect that, plus sharks, seabirds and other marine predators: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bonus #whaleontology #fossilfriday: Introducing the new right whale Megabalaena sapporoensis from the upper Miocene of Japan! About 12-13 meters long - at the small end of extant right whales (Eubalaena). Described by my NZ office mate Yoshi Tanaka et al. palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

🧪 Great work on Hector’s & Māui genomes with @laninsky.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-07...

New paper showing stalled recovery of Australian southern right whale from whaling using amazing long term dataset #whale #science #climatechange www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

phys.org/news/2025-05... Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org

New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org: Animal culture: conservation in a changing world Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to have contributed to the genomic insights into demographic and evolutionary histories chapter led by @andrewfoote.bsky.social with @mariels.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social Michael Fontaine and Yacine Benchehida

RNZ let me warble on about our study on human language-like structure in humpback #whale song @royalsocietynz.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social #animalculture www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

SO very excited about new paper with @simonkirby.bsky.social and @ellengarland.bsky.social: We used infant-inspired tools to analyze eight years of humpback whale song, finding recurring parts with a Zipfian frequency distribution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Schémas de paternité chez les baleines à bosse: compétition sexuelle et flux génique royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241424 @francae.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 1/7

In @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Human language & whale song share statistical structure for ‘learnability’ #culture #whale @ellengarland.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...