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Chiara De Gregorio
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Post-doc @ Warwick University - Ethology / Primatology / Bioacoustics
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TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!

Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Complexity doesn’t always need words. The rhythms, patterns and structures we have uncovered in orangutan alarms remind us that meaningful communication can emerge in many forms, and that the roots of our language may lie not just in what is said, but how it is expressed"
What the hidden rhythms of orangutan calls can tell us about language – new research
Recursion was thought to be a unique feature of human language.
theconversation.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Orangutans organize alarm calls using recursive rhythms—layered like Russian dolls—revealing cognitive roots of language once thought unique to humans. #Anthropology #Primates #LanguageEvolution #Orangutans #Recursion
The Rhythms of the Forest: Orangutan Calls and the Evolutionary Roots of Language
How Sumatran Apes Taught Scientists a New Way to Think About Human Communication
www.primatology.net
May 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Out today in Ann NY Acad Sci: orangutans show third-order rhythmic nesting in alarm calls—like music, rhythms within rhythms within rhythms. They adjust tempo and rhythm by threat type: faster for credible threats 🐯, slower for less credible alarms 🔵. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
May 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NLP may arise from both physiological constraints and communicative functions, with sexual dimorphism and age patterns hinting at additional selective pressures. ➡️ Check out the full article on the new Phil Trans B issue: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
April 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Have the courage to look them in the face! Because their faces can tell us a lot! Filippo and Dayanna made a massive effort and studied the faces of cotton-top tamarins with deep learning—a striking step for our visual communication studies! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The indri, a critically endangered lemur only found in Madagascar’s rainforest, might hold clues about the human knack for musicality, a Mongabay video explains.

Watch the full video: “What singing lemurs can tell us about the origin of music”

news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM