Nightingales strike the right chord Male birds flexibly coordinate syllable duration and tone when matching rival songs

14-Jan-2026
#Nightingales strike the right chord
Male #birds flexibly coordinate syllable duration and tone when matching rival songs

research in @CurrentBiology

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1112634

#science #birdsong #zoomusicology #behaviour

Twinkle, twinkle leopard seal: songs below the ice flow like nursery rhymes Researchers have, for the first time, analysed the structure of leopard seal songs – and found they most closely align with human nursery rhymes.

31-Jul-2025
Twinkle, twinkle leopard seal: songs below the ice flow like nursery rhymes

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1093197

#science #zoomusicology #seals #behaviour

A mockingbird can learn to imitate up to 200 different bird songs, including some lesser-known species like a feral cat, a rusty gate, and the car alarm of a 1994 Buick LeSabre.

#birds
#naturephotography
#nature
#zoomusicology

Great talk by Gábor Háden in Strasbourg, France, during a meeting on ‘invariants’ and universals in music [1].

A meeting organized by Márta Grabócz celebrating François-Bernard Mâche’s 90th birthday (the inventor of the term #zoomusicology).

[1] lnkd.in/evAzNYwc

Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music Humans have profoundly changed the global soundscape. Studying how nonhuman animals respond to music can contribute to a better understanding of the e…

Our #zoomusicology #animalwelfare paper "Playing music to animals," co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Martin Ullrich, @ruedinager.bsky.social and me is now open access. This has been such a great team to work with & fun paper to write!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm excited to share our interdisciplinary inquiry into the use of music in animal welfare contexts, "Playing music to animals" co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, @ruedinager.bsky.social, Marin Ullrich & me! #zoomusicology #AnimalWelfare authors.elsevier.com/a/1kYdDmjMA3XG