🎼What is octave equivalence? 🎶Do animals use notes and octaves? In the second episode of Acoustic World, we talk about it with @mhoeschele.bsky.social from ARI Vienna’s "Musicality and Bioacoustics" group. Free now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7m6Y... #acousticworld #bioacoustic #podcast

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound. Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.

🗣️What makes music and language exclusively human? 🐾How do other animals communicate? 🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do? 🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions. Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!

It was a great pleasure to present at the ICMPC18 my poster on perceptual biases in zebra finches! 🐦 I came out from the conference with new friends, cool insights and a lot of questions about our and other species music perception! Finding that collaboration between fields is the key! 💪

Do other animals have "rhythm"? It turns out that answering this question is no simple task. Animals produce rhythms for a variety of mechanical reasons (e.g., walking speed, heart beats) without it necessarily implying an understanding of rhythmicity. See our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶 Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...

Published today! Here we show how social life shapes musical timing in a duetting monkey... and how hard is singing while parenting! 🙈 🎶 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @marcogamba.bsky.social

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

Direct link to our chapter's preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... We point out the advantages of a comparative approach between human and non-human animals as a road to a better understanding of the origin of rhythms in (animal) communication & language evolution.

3nd Post of recent publications in #bioacoustics 🔊 proposing a standardized approach to #rhythm studies in #fish sounds. we looked at rhythmic properties of 3 species 🐟 Some are rhythmic, others...not so much. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... With Marta Bolga, Marta Picciulin & Eric Parmentier

Cool study in chimpanzee from the Leiden group is finally out!

iNatSounds: new dataset from folks @inaturalist.bsky.social & co-authors; looks to be one of the largest public datasets of animal sounds openreview.net/forum?id=QCY... github.com/visipedia/in... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

To get the ball rolling about #bioacoustics on Bluesky, I propose to share (and re-post) our publications of the last 4 years. This is my 10th post, and it's about ELEPHANT SEAL! The other 9 were about 🐶,🌿,👶,🐧,🦛 ,🐊,🐒, 🐦; see @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Following @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social suggestion to get the ball rolling on #bioacoustics on Bluesky: my 1st repost. Actually already 5 years old...we found general isochronous #rhythms in 3 vocalization types of the greater sac winged bat 🦇 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... As (almost) always #openaccess

Following the great suggestion of @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social to repost to get the ball rolling on #bioacoustics on Bluesky, here is the work made with @chiaradg.bsky.social, @andrearavignani.bsky.social, Marco Gamba and his team on rhythm pattern on indris' vocalizations. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...