Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds
@barkslab.bsky.social
Research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University, supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Our mission is to explore vocal learning in dogs by combining cutting-edge technology with interdisciplinary methods.
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Our "Talking dogs" review has been featured in @newsweek.com :)
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Scientists wanted to know if dogs could one day talk—here’s what they found
Tamás Faragó told Newsweek: "We should look at their behavior, how they interact with humans and how they live together with us."
www.newsweek.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Our "Talking dogs" review has been featured in @newsweek.com :)
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
📢Meet us!!
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢Meet us!!
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
📢Meet us!!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢Meet us!!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
Last Friday the Dept. of Ethology held the Dog Ethology Conference 🐾 for the owners who volunteer in our studies.
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Last Friday the Dept. of Ethology held the Dog Ethology Conference 🐾 for the owners who volunteer in our studies.
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
Last week at the International Bioacoustics Congress in Kerteminde, the Barks Lab team shared some of our work 🐕🔊
We presented 2 posters and a lively talk :)
We also loved catching up with colleagues, making new connections, and getting inspired by the latest in #bioacoustics!
We presented 2 posters and a lively talk :)
We also loved catching up with colleagues, making new connections, and getting inspired by the latest in #bioacoustics!
September 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Last week at the International Bioacoustics Congress in Kerteminde, the Barks Lab team shared some of our work 🐕🔊
We presented 2 posters and a lively talk :)
We also loved catching up with colleagues, making new connections, and getting inspired by the latest in #bioacoustics!
We presented 2 posters and a lively talk :)
We also loved catching up with colleagues, making new connections, and getting inspired by the latest in #bioacoustics!
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!
Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó
@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social
🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó
@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social
🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!
Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó
@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social
🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó
@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social
🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Reposted by Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds
This might be my last dog–pig comparative study (or who knows?).
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Companion pigs alternate orientation between humans and snout-inaccessible targets | Royal Society Open Science
Previous research on intensely human-socialized pigs found no evidence for orientation
alternations to direct human attention to an inaccessible target, the benchmark behaviour
that in many other spec...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This might be my last dog–pig comparative study (or who knows?).
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
#dogethology #dogcommunication #bioacousticsresearch #canineethology | Dogs and Science
What can your dog’s barks and growls really tell you?
At the Canine Science Forum 2025, our Social Media Manager, Jennifer Somers, sat down with canine ethologist and bioacoustician Dr. Tamás Faragó...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
Our first paper is out!!🐕🎤
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
July 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our first paper is out!!🐕🎤
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
We are happy to introduce ourselves to the research community. Who are we? What do we do?
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are happy to introduce ourselves to the research community. Who are we? What do we do?
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal