Wolf & gibbon zoologist (bioacoustics) & astrobiologist @ Girton College University of Cambridge. Author: 'The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy' and 'Why Animals Talk' https://bit.ly/3acyDfd
📣Cambridge, come hear Amin Amara and Uri Weltman, two leaders of STANDING TOGETHER, a grassroots movenment that mobilises Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel against war, occupation, and racism.
Thursday May 15 6-7:30 pm, Woolf Institute, Cambridge
The pace of discoveries in the search for alien life is picking up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o
If you want to know more about what life will be like on other planets, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy is a good place to start
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314542/the-zoologists-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-kershenbaum-arik/9780241986844
#scicomm #astrobiology
Another cool podcast, if you want to know more about animal communication 🦧📣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGyM1Zq8cw
#scicom
Here I am talking to Kensy Cooperrider of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute podcast about animal communication and animal minds... 🧠 We take a detailed look at why animals make the sounds they make, and what that says about animal consciousness.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mnS9mCqIL3Qs7VLRQeSjT
🚨📣New paper alert!
The jackals are coming! 🦊
We show how we've used a network of acoustic monitoring devices to pinpoint the locations of jackals, which are spreading through Romania and surrounding areas.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71041
Inquiry, with Mark Lynch on WICN 90.5
"Wild animals make a lot of noise. They sing, call, yowl, scream, you name it. They certainly appear to be communicating, but do animals have a language? Could a human ever hold an actual conversation with a wild animal?"
Listen to this episode of the The Colin McEnroe Show where I talk about how we can understand what animals are saying, and Federico Rossano talks about training dogs to communicate with us by pressing buttons
https://www.ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-mcenroe-show/2025-02-13/the-secret-language-of-animals-and-how-were-learning-to-understand-it
📢Another podcast, with a different direction. This time I'm talking about animal communication with BrainShaman, a "philosophical and scientific journey towards better brain health."
https://www.brainshaman.com/2067421/episodes/16251859-arik-kershenbaum-the-evolution-of-animal-and-human-communication-episode-115
#scicomm
A new podcast with me discussing Why Animals Talk (this time with video!) from The Point Blank Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0qcgNMtUcE&list=PLKDaLHzj7RQvmu9OTHey_PtfNmLlUGOxt
The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days (JJBA) is a scientific conference designed by and for young researchers in the field of bioacoustics.
https://jjbioacoustique.wixsite.com/jjba/en/inscription
📚 A nice little review of "Why Animals Talk"
https://bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/a-great-adventure-in-animal-behaviour-and-linguistics-why-animals-talk-by-arik-kershenbaum/
🏅"Why Animals Talk" has been named part of the American Library Association’s 2025 Notable Books List: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry!
https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/spotlight-on-our-2025-ala-award-winners/
There ARE wolves here...
Yellowstone National Park
My prediction for what will happen in 2025 in the field of animal communication research. In @Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-translation-animal-sounds-human-language/
Young members of the #Bardia Nature Conservation Club, #Nepal, help us assemble our equipment for reducing human - #tiger conflict using #bioacoustics monitoring
🚨 New podcast from Nature Podcasts!
Will humans ever speak wolf? 🐺 🐺 A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter
Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum joins us to talk about his book Why Animals Talk.
🎁Looking for a gift idea? 📚 "The best ideas books of 2024" from The Guardian . Including "Why Animals Talk"!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/03/the-best-ideas-books-of-2024