2024
International Bioacoustics Congress 2025
The International Bioacoustics Congress 2025 (IBAC25) will take place at Lundsgaard Gods in Kerteminde, Denmark, on 7-12 September 2025. Magnus Wahlberg and Ole Næsbye Larsen are planning the conference along with several members of the Sound Communication and Behavior Group. For more information, visit the official website www.ibac25.com.
Bellwethers of change: Population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response
Olga Filatova coauthored the paper "Bellwethers of change: Population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response", which was published in Royal Society Open Science, February 2024. The paper has been covered by a lot of international news medias: npr, Le Monde, CBS News and CBC News.
Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales
The paper "Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales" by Coen P. H. Elemans (first author) and Magnus Wahlberg, et al., was published in Nature , February 24 2024. It has received an extensive amount of press coverage in a lot of big international news medias including The New York Times, Reuters, CNN, BBC, abc NEWS, npr, Sky News, Los Angeles Times and Le Monde.
2023
Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird
The paper "Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird", with Iris Adam as first author and Coen P. H. Elemans as last author, was published in Nature Communications, December 12 2023. The paper has been covered by several big new medias such as npr, The Jerusalem Post, Le Monde and Bild de wissenschaft.
Toothed whales use distinct vocal registers for echolocation and communication
The paper "Toothed whales use distinct vocal registers for echolocation and communication", with Coen P. H. Elemans as last author, was published in Science , March 3 2023. It has gotten huge press coverage in a lot of news medias around the world: New York Times, The Washington Post, npr, Daily Mail, TODAY Singapore, Bild der wissenschaft and The Hindu.
2022
Bats expand their vocal range by recruiting different laryngeal structures for echolocation and social communication
The paper “Bats expand their vocal range by recruiting different laryngeal structures for echolocation and social communication”, contributed to by Coen P. H. Elemans and Lasse Jakobsen, was published in PLOS Biology, November 2022. It was was picked up by a lot of international news medias including New York Post, The Washington Post, Sky News and npr.