Acoustic Communication Team

YouTube video by Acoustic Communications Team Humpback whale calf checks the CATS cam deployed on its mother

During the 2025 humpback whale breeding season, we deployed some CATS cam on adults and calves in collaboration with Cétamada Madagascar. Check some very cool footages (breaches, rubbing on the sandy floor...).

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Congratulations to @rmaevatiana.bsky.social for his last paper on the buoyancy control in Humpback whale !!

(1/7) 🐋 Remember those humpback calf-perspective videos I used to share? Super cool, but they only showed what the calf’s camera could catch.
What if we could zoom out and see the whole scene?

Report of Two Rare Cases of Allonursing and Fostering in the Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) in Namibia Click on the article title to read more.

Congrats to @mathildemartin.bsky.social for her new publication just released in Marine Mammals Science !
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Hey, hey, BORIS has reached 2K! How should we celebrate the event? Visit www.boris.unito.it and let us know what you think! @boris-behav-obs.bsky.social

Congrats to our PhD student Léo Maucourt for his recent paper on the behavioural context of sound production in juvenile green sea turtles just released in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.
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Behavioural context of call production in humpback whale calves: identification of potential begging calls in a mysticetes species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Baleen whale calves vocalize, but the behavioural context and role of their social calls in mother–calf interactions are yet to be documented further. We investigated the context of call production in...

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Our last paper on Humpback whale vocal behaviour published in Proceedings B.

Les « pingers » et autres avertisseurs sonores peuvent-ils aider à réduire le risque de collision entre bateaux et cétacés ? Des milliers de cétacés meurent de collisions avec des navires. De nombreuses mesures de protection sont mises en place, mais leur efficacité n’est pas toujours démontrée.

Voici un nouvel article dans The Conversation sur les pingers
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