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Image 1. A matriarch leads her family across the dry lake bed in Amboseli, Kenya. Such a movement is typically preceded by single and chorused Let’s go and Cadenced rumbles as individuals initiate and negotiate a plan of action. Image Credit: ElephantVoices . Key Takeaways Around 60% of elephant rumbles occur in overlapping choruses , yet these multi-caller exchanges have been far less studied than isolated calls. In
Image credit: Bejan Adrian / Pexels Key Takeaways BirdCODE is a supervised deep learning model that offers zero-shot sound event detection , enabling researchers to detect and classify bird vocalizations with temporal precision and without dataset-specific fine-tuning. The model was developed using a combination of training strategies using weakly labelled recordings, synthetic soundscapes, and pseudo-labelled data t
Image credit: José Neiva Mesquita-Neto Understanding Pollination Through Ecological Function Pollination is one of the most important ecological processes on Earth, but understanding how different insects contribute to it remains surprisingly difficult. While many bee species visit flowers, they do not all transfer pollen. Distinguishing between different ecological functions has traditionally required labor-intensiv
Image credit: Mantis Design / Adobe Stock The Growing Challenge of Biodiversity Data Citizen science projects are generating more data than ever before. Global biodiversity databases now contain millions of species observations , creating an incredible resource for ecological research. While collecting the data is not a problem, researchers still need to analyze the sounds hidden within thousands or even millions of
Our 2025 Annual Report The past few years have seen a steady drumbeat of discoveries that illustrate the complex communications and culture of other animals, many of them accelerated by significant advances in technology. We are proud to be part of this incredible progress in understanding our fellow species. Our 2025 Annual Report highlights the advances we’ve made with our partners over the past year in the burgeon
Image credit: Quang / Adobe Stock Individual ID in Chatty Species In the wild, zebra finches don’t sing in isolation. They move through dynamic social groups, calling and responding to one another across space and time. For ecologists, understanding this communication requires knowing who is communicating with whom , and how information flows through a group. Tracking communication at the level of individuals, howeve
Image credit: Elianne Dipp / Pexels Over the last decade, work on animal communication has reached a convergence as the growing availability of large-scale behavioral and bioacoustic data merges with relatively recent advances in machine learning. As a result, we’re starting to see the study of animal communication shift from narrowly defined, species-specific, and hypothesis-limited analyses toward data-driven disco