Animals ≠ Things

04/03/2023

Dr. MJ Barrett discusses the transformative potential of intuitive interspecies communication and the importance of speaking with other animals for cognitive and interspecies justice.

Videos | Speaking with Other Animals for Justice: Dr. MJ Barrett's Insights on Interspecies Communication

04/03/2023

Intuitive Interspecies Communication is an intriguing field that allows us to connect with animals in ways that go beyond words. Animal communicators use their intuition to understand the thoughts and emotions of animals, whereas researchers study their b

for Humans | What is Intuitive Interspecies Communication?

26/02/2023

In a recent study, it was found that horses can use their sense of smell to tell the difference between the smells people make when they are happy or scared. This study tells us a lot about how horses understand social situations and how they can sense ho

Communication | Can Horses Smell Fear? Study Reveals Their Ability to Discriminate Between Joy and Fear Odors

25/02/2023

SMASH is a groundbreaking machine learning project led by the University of Nova Gorica, designed to tackle some of the world's toughest challenges in science and humanities, including advancements in animal communication.

Young Leaders | SMASH is Nova Gorica University's Machine Learning Initiative to Decode Animal Communication and Other Challenging Global Problems

22/02/2023

🐦 Scientists have created a hyper-realistic robotic finch to study how songbirds communicate and learn their songs. Find out how this new technology can help improve animal rights in our latest article!

Communication | Scientists Develop Hyper-Realistic Robotic Finch to Study Animal Communication

20/02/2023

Professor Norbert Sachser discusses his fascinating insights into the inner lives of animals. Sachser's book "Much Like Us" highlights the enormous advances in our understanding of animal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

for Humans | Much Like Us - What Science Reveals about The Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals

19/02/2023

David Dobbs' "What Conservation Sounds Like" describes how modern biacoustic technologies are transforming wildlife research and conservation. The article explores using autonomous recording devices (ARUs) and call recognizers like the new BirdNET app

Communication | Hearing the Unheard: New Biacoustic Tools Reveal Birds' Secrets

19/02/2023

Neuroscientist Josh Neunuebel and his team utilize ultrasonic "mouse melodies" to explore how mice engage socially. They are constructing a "mouse song dictionary" to relate sounds to activities and track neural activity to learn how the brain remembers

Technology | Building a Dictionary of Mouse Songs

16/02/2023

Boyan Slat, a young environmentalist, started The Ocean Cleanup to deal with the problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. His innovative idea and unwavering determination have turned his vision into a global solution that has a big effect on animal hea

Animal Protection | How Boyan Slat's dream is changing the fight against ocean plastic from a boy's idea to a global solution

13/02/2023

The Secret of Camille M. Vasquez's Success

13/02/2023

Animals and Humans Teaming Up: Uncover the Rare and Fascinating World of Mutualistic Relationships

for Humans | Animals and Humans Teaming Up: Uncover the Rare and Fascinating World of Mutualistic Relationships

13/02/2023

5-day interactive online event Early-bird registration closes 15th Feb Join this 5-day interactive online event of knowledge sharing, idea generation and community building with scholars, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, animal care providers and practitioners of intuitive interspecies communication (IIC). With many opportunities to network and learn on the Symposium platform both before and after live events, features include panel presentations, keynotes and small group dialogues....

for Humans | Multispecies Methods Research Symposium

13/02/2023

The AIMS Master Scholarship 2023 offers African students the chance to delve into the exciting world of machine learning and bioacoustics. The scholarship, offered by AIMS South Africa in partnership with the National Research Foundation and the South Afr

for Humans | African Students Invited to Explore Machine Learning and Bioacoustics with AIMS Master Scholarship 2023

29/01/2023

Fight for animal rights with the groundbreaking legal battle to free Happy the elephant from Bronx Zoo captivity. Watch expert Stephen Wise explain the complexity and autonomy of animals in this must-see video on the ethical and policy issues of animal ri

for Humans | Elephants on Trial: Court Hearing for Freedom

25/01/2023

A recent study found that dogs are better at communicating with humans than pigs. The research found that while both dogs and pigs pay attention to humans, only dogs initiate referential communication with them, suggesting certain characteristics may be i

Non-Human Skills | Dogs are Better at Communicating with Humans than Pigs, Study Finds

24/01/2023

"From Meerkats' fair play to Naked mole-rat's monarchy: Uncovering the curious and diverse ways animals live by their morals" When it comes to animal behavior, there's one thing that's for sure: animals have morals too! But what exactly do we mean by "morals" when it comes to animals? Well, just like humans, animals have a set of rules or principles that they live by....

Non-Human Skills | The Animal Kingdom's Moral Compass: Understanding Morals in Animal Behavior

24/01/2023

From Elephants to Insects, Research is Revealing that Animal Intelligence is More Complex than We Thought Fascinating Research of animals is beginning to uncover the complexity of their feelings and thought processes. For a long time, scientists believed that animal intelligence could be easily arranged into a hierarchy, with humans at the top, followed by primates and other mammals, birds, reptiles and insects....

Non-Human Skills | The Surprising Intelligence of Animals

23/01/2023

I recommend to view the video "Decoding Nonhuman Communication | Polylogues - YouTube" to learn more about the fascinating topic of understanding non-human animal communication. This video features experts in the field who discuss the latest research and technology being used to understand how animals communicate with each other. It is a great way to learn about the different ways animals communicate, such as through vocalizations, body language, and even through chemical signals....

for Humans | Decoding Nonhuman Communication

23/01/2023

"Discovering How Bats Make Those Amazing Sounds" Bats are pretty cool animals, they have the ability to make a wide range of sounds that are used for both echolocation (finding food and navigating) and social communication. These sounds can be as high as 120,000 Hz (that's super high!) and as low as 1,000 Hz. This is an amazing range of sounds that is unmatched by any other mammal....

Non-Human Skills | The Bat's Incredible Vocal Range: Uncovering the Secrets of Echolocation

06/12/2022

The first step in sound-based ommunication with Dolphins is an Android App that helps establish communication by sound/whistles. Wanna say "Hello" or "bye" to a dolphin? This app allows you to do this and much more!

02/12/2022

Interesting article about cross-species communication. Cheetah marking trees are hotspots for communication also for other species https://idw-online.de/de/news805928 #

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team from the Cheetah Research Project of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) now showed that several mam...

31/05/2022

simply amazing