🐳🌐🦤🧪 New data from tagged fin whales in southern New England show low non-song call rates during mid-summer. Calls from males were most frequent during nighttime feeding, indicating context-dependent sound production and implications for acoustic detection. bit.ly/esr01487

We are BABEL, the Bioacoustics and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Syracuse University! We focus on the ecology and evolution of acoustic signaling and animal behavior. Research in the lab spans the fields of behavioral ecology, evolution, bioacoustics, oceanography, and conservation biology.

Congratulations to 2026 Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship recipient 🎉 @whalesmels.bsky.social from @subabel.bsky.social Melanie’s research examines how female acoustic signalling influences pair stability in humpback whales—shedding light on the role of communication in social dynamics.

Great article in The NY Times today about North Atlantic right whales. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...

Excited to announce a new paper by @juliazeh.bsky.social Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Welcoming 2 more NARW calves is a great way to start the new year! Thanks to Gina Lonati @eubalenagina on Twitter/X for sharing! #🦑

Second right whale calf of the year seen by Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s Georgia Team on December 7 - to mom Horton, who has been entangled at least four times. www.neaq.org/2023-2024-ri... 🧪🌎🐋

New paper alert! Drone deployment of suction cup acoustic tags provides data describing individual calling behavior by endangered sei whales feeding in Massachusetts during the spring. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...