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26 October 2022Seals have a sense of rhythm
Rhythm is important for human music and speech. But are we the only mammal with a sense of rhythm? In an experimental study published in Biology Letters, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck...
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09 September 2022Whale clans use vocalisations to mark their culture
How similar are non-human animal cultures to our own? An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and Dalhousie University...
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13 May 2022Animal Bioacoustics and Human Speech Symposium
The Research Group Comparative Bioacoustics invites you to the Animal Bioacoustics and Human Speech symposium on 8 June. Four keynote speakers Dr. Livio Favaro, Dr. Olga Feher, Dr. Marco Gamba, and Dr...
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29 April 2022Anatomical study confirms: harbour seals are good at learning calls
Harbour seals may sound different than expected from their body size. Is this ability related to their vocal talents or is it the result of an anatomical adaptation? An international team of...
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10 January 2022Andrea Ravignani awarded ERC Grant to study origins of rhythm
Andrea Ravignani, Independent Group Leader of the Comparative Bioacoustics Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, has been awarded a European Research Council...
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15 November 2021A new approach to identify mammals good at learning sounds
Some animals—such as red deer—sound ‘bigger’ than they really are. This means that their calls are lower than you would expect based on their body size. Biologists think that ‘faking’ body size in...
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02 November 2021Baby seals can change their tone of voice
Hoover the ‘talking seal’ famously imitated human speech. But can baby seals already adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Free...
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25 October 2021That primate’s got rhythm!
What are the origins of musical rhythm? Are humans the only mammals that have rhythm? Researchers from the universities of Turin, Lyon/Saint-Étienne and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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