Using on-board sound recordings to infer behaviour of free-moving wild animals

Evidence of sociality in the timing and location of foraging in a colonial seabird

(2018) Teri B. Jones et al.   Biology Letters

Don’t believe the mike: behavioural, directional, and environmental impacts on recorded bat echolocation call measures

(2018) J.M. Ratcliffe et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Arrayvolution-Using microphone arrays to study bats in the field

(2018) Jens Christian Koblitz   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Biomechanics of predator–prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala

(2018) Alan M. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Challenges and solutions for studying collective animal behaviour in the wild

(2018) Lacey F. Hughey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From local collective behavior to global migratory patterns in white storks

(2018) Andrea Flack et al.   SCIENCE

Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: Environmental limitations for monitoring and analyzing bat echolocation

(2018) Holger R. Goerlitz   Ecology and Evolution

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

(2018) Oisin Mac Aodha et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Bats without borders: Predators learn novel prey cues from other predatory species

(2018) Krista J. Patriquin et al.   Science Advances

Resource Ephemerality Drives Social Foraging in Bats

(2018) Katya Egert-Berg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

High field metabolic rates of wild harbour porpoises

(2018) Laia Rojano-Doñate et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A 2.6-g sound and movement tag for studying the acoustic scene and kinematics of echolocating bats

(2018) Laura Stidsholt et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Sensing in a noisy world: lessons from auditory specialists, echolocating bats

(2017) Aaron J. Corcoran et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Do you hear what I see? Vocalization relative to visual detection rates of Hawaiian hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus semotus )

(2017) Paulo. Marcos Gorresen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Cyclic bouts of extreme bradycardia counteract the high metabolism of frugivorous bats

(2017) M Teague O'Mara et al.   eLife

On-Bird Sound Recordings: Automatic Acoustic Recognition of Activities and Contexts

(2017) Dan Stowell et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Heart rate reveals torpor at high body temperatures in lowland tropical free-tailed bats

(2017) M. Teague O'Mara et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Group cohesion in foraging meerkats: follow the moving ‘vocal hot spot’

(2017) Gabriella E. C. Gall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry

(2017) Hannah J. Williams et al.   Movement Ecology

From the track to the ocean: Using flow control to improve marine bio-logging tags for cetaceans

(2017) Giovani Fiore et al.   PLoS One

Group association and vocal behaviour during foraging trips in Gentoo penguins

(2017) Noori Choi et al.   Scientific Reports

Individual recognition of opposite sex vocalizations in the zebra finch

(2017) Pietro B. D’Amelio et al.   Scientific Reports

Effect of roost choice on winter torpor patterns of a free-ranging insectivorous bat

(2016) Clare Stawski et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Evidence for ship noise impacts on humpback whale foraging behaviour

(2016) Hannah B. Blair et al.   Biology Letters

AutoDietary: A Wearable Acoustic Sensor System for Food Intake Recognition in Daily Life

(2016) Yin Bi et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

The origins and diversity of bat songs

(2016) Michael Smotherman et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Tracking the kinematics of caudal-oscillatory swimming: a comparison of two on-animal sensing methods

(2016) Lucía Martina Martín López et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Understanding how animal groups achieve coordinated movement

(2016) J. E. Herbert-Read   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Towards the Automatic Classification of Avian Flight Calls for Bioacoustic Monitoring

(2016) Justin Salamon et al.   PLoS One

A minimum-impact, flexible tool to study vocal communication of small animals with precise individual-level resolution

(2016) Lisa F. Gill et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evidence for contact calls in fish: conspecific vocalisations and ambient soundscape influence group cohesion in a nocturnal species

(2016) L. van Oosterom et al.   Scientific Reports

Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior

(2016) Yosef Prat et al.   Scientific Reports

Sperm whale predator-prey interactions involve chasing and buzzing, but no acoustic stunning

(2016) A. Fais et al.   Scientific Reports

First Direct Evidence of Long-distance Seasonal Movements and Hibernation in a Migratory Bat

(2016) Theodore J. Weller et al.   Scientific Reports

A synthesis of two decades of research documenting the effects of noise on wildlife

(2015) Graeme Shannon et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bats regulate biosonar based on the availability of visual information

(2015) Sasha Danilovich et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High

(2015) Noam Cvikel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The golden age of bio-logging: how animal-borne sensors are advancing the frontiers of ecology

(2015) Christopher C. Wilmers et al.   ECOLOGY

How anthropogenic noise affects foraging

(2015) Jinhong Luo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

No effect of satellite tagging on survival, recruitment, longevity, productivity and social dominance of a raptor, and the provisioning and condition of its offspring

(2015) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Calling louder and longer: how bats use biosonar under severe acoustic interference from other bats

(2015) Eran Amichai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons

(2015) A. Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   SCIENCE

The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations

(2015) C. M. Bishop et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Spying on small wildlife sounds using affordable collar-mounted miniature microphones: an innovative method to record individual daylong vocalisations in chipmunks

(2015) Charline Couchoux et al.   Scientific Reports

Structure of mycobacterial maltokinase, the missing link in the essential GlgE-pathway

(2015) Joana Fraga et al.   Scientific Reports

Range-dependent flexibility in the acoustic field of view of echolocating porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

(2015) Danuta M Wisniewska et al.   eLife

Patterns of call communication between group-housed zebra finches change during the breeding cycle

(2015) Lisa F Gill et al.   eLife

Step by step: reconstruction of terrestrial animal movement paths by dead-reckoning

(2015) O. R. Bidder et al.   Movement Ecology

Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: from mechanisms to consequences

(2014) Robert D. Magrath et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social learning within and across species: information transfer in mouse-eared bats

(2014) Theresa M.A. Clarin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Bottlenose dolphins modify behavior to reduce metabolic effect of tag attachment

(2014) J. M. van der Hoop et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Using accelerometers to determine the calling behavior of tagged baleen whales

(2014) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds

(2014) Victor N Anisimov et al.   NATURE METHODS

Excess Baggage for Birds: Inappropriate Placement of Tags on Gannets Changes Flight Patterns

(2014) Sylvie P. Vandenabeele et al.   PLoS One

On-board recordings reveal no jamming avoidance in wild bats

(2014) N. Cvikel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference

(2014) A. J. Corcoran et al.   SCIENCE

50 years of bat tracking: device attachment and future directions

(2014) M. Teague O'Mara et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Automatic large-scale classification of bird sounds is strongly improved by unsupervised feature learning

(2014) Dan Stowell et al.   PeerJ

If a bird flies in the forest, does an insect hear it?

(2013) J. P. Fournier et al.   Biology Letters

Advances in tracking small migratory birds: a technical review of light-level geolocation

(2013) Eli S. Bridge et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Global warming alters sound transmission: differential impact on the prey detection ability of echolocating bats

(2013) J. Luo et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Functional Convergence in Bat and Toothed Whale Biosonars

(2013) P. T. Madsen et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities

(2013) E. Nemeth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Calculating the ecological impacts of animal-borne instruments on aquatic organisms

(2013) T. Todd Jones et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The use of on-animal acoustical recording devices for studying animal behavior

(2013) Emma Lynch et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Intensity and directionality of bat echolocation signals

(2013) Lasse Jakobsen et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

(2013) Somayeh Dodge et al.   Movement Ecology

Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

(2012) Tiago A. Marques et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

‘No cost of echolocation for flying bats’ revisited

(2012) Christian C. Voigt et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Using tri-axial acceleration data to identify behavioral modes of free-ranging animals: general concepts and tools illustrated for griffon vultures

(2012) R. Nathan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

From Sensor Data to Animal Behaviour: An Oystercatcher Example

(2012) Judy Shamoun-Baranes et al.   PLoS One

Do you hear what I hear? Implications of detector selection for acoustic monitoring of bats

(2012) Amanda M. Adams et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Programmable, miniature video-loggers for deployment on wild birds and other wildlife

(2012) Christian Rutz et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds

(2011) Eli S. Bridge et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape

(2011) Bryan C. Pijanowski et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The Movebank data model for animal tracking

(2011) B. Kranstauber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Territorial dynamics of Mexican Ant-thrushes Formicarius moniliger revealed by individual recognition of their songs

(2011) ALEXANDER N. G. KIRSCHEL et al.   IBIS

Low metabolism in a tropical bat from lowland Panama measured using heart rate telemetry: an unexpected life in the slow lane

(2011) D. K. N. Dechmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

When three per cent may not be three per cent; device-equipped seabirds experience variable flight constraints

(2011) Sylvie P. Vandenabeele et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Tracking migratory songbirds: accuracy of light-level loggers (geolocators) in forest habitats

(2011) Adam M. Fudickar et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks

(2010) Máté Nagy et al.   NATURE

Hunting at the highway: traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in acoustic predators

(2010) B. M. Siemers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology

(2010) Douglas G. Barron et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The effects of geolocator drag and weight on the flight ranges of small migrants

(2010) Melissa S. Bowlin et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Probing the natural scene by echolocation in bats

(2010) Moss   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Estimating cetacean population density using fixed passive acoustic sensors: An example with Blainville’s beaked whales

(2009) Tiago A. Marques et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Studying the behaviour and sensory ecology of marine mammals using acoustic recording tags: a review

(2009) M Johnson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The Voice of Bats: How Greater Mouse-eared Bats Recognize Individuals Based on Their Echolocation Calls

(2009) Yossi Yovel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Cues for acoustic detection of prey: insect rustling sounds and the influence of walking substrate

(2008) H. R. Goerlitz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Frequent summer nuptial flights of ants provide a primary food source for bats

(2008) Eran Levin et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Echolocating Bats Cry Out Loud to Detect Their Prey

(2008) Annemarie Surlykke et al.   PLoS One

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial accelerometry

(2008) ELC Shepard et al.   Endangered Species Research

Acoustic determination of activity and flipper stroke rate in foraging northern fur seal females

(2007) SJ Insley et al.   Endangered Species Research