Day 3 #ECS2026 🥳 Super thoughtful and thought provoking plenary on importance of taking perspective in conservation science from Paul Thompson this morning 🐋🦑🧪
@oceangill.bsky.social looks beyond Europe to summarise coastal cetacean conservation issues and massive data gaps around the Indian Ocean, focussing on the concerning status of humpback dolphins and establishing a vital international network #ECS2026 🦑🐋🧪 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@denrisch.bsky.social sent gliders bearing soundtraps around the famous Stanton Bank - dolphins on the bank, porpoises off it...super cool work! #ECS2026 🦑🧪🏴🐋
So exciting to see sperm whale dialect data being collected from the Turkish eastern Med waters 👏 Aylin Akkaya - and presented with good humour 🤣 sperm whale squeals can indeed sound like drowning cats! watch this space for more developments on this topic! 👌🦑🧪🐋 #ECS2026
1/4 The enormous complexity of algae fishing
Researchers have studied in detail how chimpanzees in Guinea fish for algae. They prepare their tools (up to 4 m long) in advance, and use 22 different techniques.
(paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reader in Biology @_SMRU_ @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews. Ocean Yachtmaster for hire! Marine conservation, cetacean & fish behaviour, cultural evolution. He/him. Thalassophile. Sailor. #Fife
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Luke Rendell
Luke Rendell
Many of us have seen videos of humans swimming with orcas. The reality, however, is much different. Over the course of nearly a year, I traveled to Norway and Mexico to report on the complexity of swimming with these apex predators. Read more in @nytimes.com gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...
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I like ba-o-babs and I can not lie… but as it turns out I’m not the only one! Fongoli chimpanzees incorporate baobab hollows into their vocal drumming displays!!
🧪🐵🥁 Are you sitting comfortably… 1/n
#newpaper #sciencestorytelling
brill.com/view/journal...
Really nice to see our recent paper picked up in a Dispatch. It highlights a point we care a lot about: even in a conservation success story like humpback whales, recovery is about more than numbers.🐳
Dispatch: www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
Georgina Whittome with important findings about blue whale distribution and ENSO patterns in the eastern Pacific 👏 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social #ECS2026 #MSc_MMS_St_A 🐋🦑🧪🏴
Luke Rendell
Luke Rendell
Luke Rendell
As a population recovers from extreme exploitation, it is not simply a matter of how
many individuals are in the population but who they are, which can affect sexual selection.
A long-term study of hu...
New paper on age-related reproductive tactics & success in humpback whales, published in Current Biology.🐳🧬
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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