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Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis

www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz
September 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
southern right #whales in #NZ & #Australia are a conservation success story

& our new paper shows their offshore feeding grounds

if the #highseastreaty #bbnj is ratified we can protect that, plus sharks, seabirds and other marine predators:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Large-scale differences, mesoscale similarities: Neighbouring marine predator populations provide insights into Southern Ocean productivity
Understanding how marine predators explore dynamic ocean environments is key for assessing the ecological significance of different habitats and for i…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Bonus #whaleontology #fossilfriday: Introducing the new right whale Megabalaena sapporoensis from the upper Miocene of Japan! About 12-13 meters long - at the small end of extant right whales (Eubalaena). Described by my NZ office mate Yoshi Tanaka et al. palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...
August 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New paper showing stalled recovery of Australian southern right whale from whaling using amazing long term dataset

#whale #science #climatechange

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Something is happening with the southern right whale population, scientists say
The southern right whale species had the unfortunate habit of going close to shore, making them easy pickings for whalers. After the practice was banned, their population bounced back — but researcher...
www.abc.net.au
May 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies
Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.
phys.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:

Animal culture: conservation in a changing world

Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1925
doi.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Delighted to have contributed to the genomic insights into demographic and evolutionary histories chapter led by @andrewfoote.bsky.social with @mariels.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social Michael Fontaine and Yacine Benchehida
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Will share more details closer to release date

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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SO very excited about new paper with @simonkirby.bsky.social and @ellengarland.bsky.social: We used infant-inspired tools to analyze eight years of humpback whale song, finding recurring parts with a Zipfian frequency distribution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Whale song shows language-like statistical structure
Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These...
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM