Mama manatee and her calf swim to the surface through a cosmos of fishes 🥹〰️🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐮🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #mamatee #babytee #coralcitycamera
Melissa Ramsay
@melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social
PhD researcher at St Andrews' Centre for Biological Diversity and the Scottish Oceans Institute. Sensory ecology - animal (multi)sensory processing - intertidal scavengers. 🦀🌊🐟🫧 EastBio EDI/Student Rep (she/her)🌈🍉🌱
Ants were thought to eat this parasitic plant's fruit, but cameras revealed hermit crabs as the culprits! Each crab carried off 86 fruits on average, helping spread the seeds. Its ripe scent attracts crabs and the cockroaches that pollinate it! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hey just checking in! Hope everything’s fine!! ☺️ #manateesofcoralcity #manatee #justcheckingin #hopeeverythingsfine #coralcity
Our first queen angelfish of the year! 🙌👸🪽🐠 #queenangelfish #angelfish #holocanthusciliaris #summer #coralcitycamera
🐚🫧🦀 Some snaps from recent fieldwork: the view from our field site back to St Andrews, some mating sea hares, and some members of Team Fish living their best life 🦀🫧🐚 @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social
Oh, to be a couple of little hermit crabs venturing around the tidepool 🦀🦑
Spring sea slugs - so many around at the moment. The once rare rainbow #seaslugs are becoming quite common, more Polycera around than I’ve seen before, my second ever disco Doris. Here’s some recent clips - a teaser before something bigger out next week… #cornwallcoast #seaslugs #underwatermacro
🎉 Thing we love to see! 60,000 oysters restored to the Firth of Forth, Scotland 🦪 Previously wiped out by overfishing & pollution, it's heartening to see this vital habitat coming back, filtering water & bringing marine life with it 🌊 https://bit.ly/4uTCrvp
60,000 oysters have been dropped into the Firth of Forth in restoration project
Restoration Forth has reintroduced 60,000 European flat oysters to the Firth of Forth, doubling targets to restore lost oyster beds and boost marine…
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A tiny hermit crab is bullied and knocked upside-down. No worries, though, as she gets back up and then pulls her house back over her head for protection! 🦀🦑 #crustaceans #tidepool #love #adorbs #nokings #maui #photography #eyes
Fieldwork photos taken 30 minutes apart and just before we got rained on quite spectacularly! You really do just have to wait half an hour in Scotland if you don't like the weather ☀️🌊☔ @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social
A new Amazon shipping waterway for grain exports may silence the sophisticated communication of the giant river turtle. Scientists warn that industrial noise threatens this likely endangered species’ unique social life and migration patterns. Story by @nandawenzel.bsky.social for #Mongabay.
Amazon waterway noise threatens unique social life of giant river turtles
Hatchlings talk inside their shells to time their birth, but the roar of massive barges may soon drown out their sound.
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First fish sounds recorded in the Southern Ocean by FishSounds friend, Fannie Shabangu, et al.! doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Since our first review didn't identify any soniferous fishes from the Antarctic, we are so happy that folks are exploring this great unknown in fish #bioacoustics!
Rhyming in the cold: first evidence of soniferous fishes in the Southern Ocean
The acoustic ecology of Southern Ocean fishes remains unknown due to a lack of dedicated acoustic research on the fishes of this ocean. Passive acoustic monitoring data were collected at the South Af....
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Last weekend's reading and exploring 🌿☀️📚 I thoroughly recommend this book by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for those who have not yet read! Also thoroughly recommend a walk around Burnhope Reservoir in County Durham for people around those parts!
How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...
An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish
Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...
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Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound
BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE
Tasks We are excited to announce the 2026 BioDCASE task line up! Multi-Channel Alignment Alignment Task 1 Bioacoustic and environmental recordings are often captured using multiple devices operating simultaneously, for example with passive autonomous recorders or animal-borne loggers. When such recordings are not temporally aligned, analyses that rely on relative …
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We saw so many ragworms during fieldwork today, bright green for the breeding season! @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Acoustic repertoire and anatomical features of the flying gurnard from the Adriatic Sea" Horvatić & Vieira et al. with SPE members Manuel Vieira, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Journal of zoology
Part-night lighting fails to restore natural song rhythms in urban European Robins | Environmental Pollution | doi.org/10.1016/j.en... | #ornithology #robins #lightpollution #acoustics 🪶🔊
Valentine's Day themed crab thread! ❤️🦀🦑🧪 The shamefaced heart crab, Cryptosoma bairdii, has nothing to be ashamed of because we love them (and in this photo, they love each other if you know what I mean) 1/7 Photo: Adrien Weckel doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Cryp...
The Inside JEB article accompanying our new Special Issue, #SensoryPerceptionInAChangingWorld, provides a brief overview of the issue, highlighting the key points and take-home message from each article journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A brief break from the beautiful Scottish weather we've been having lately finally allowed us to get out for a little spot of fieldwork yesterday! @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social 🦀☔🪸
So excited to see this recommendation coming from the Animal Sentience Committee, really hoping it leads to some real change in decapod protection www.gov.uk/government/p...
📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week! Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter 🐟🐠🐡 @FishSounds.bsky.social #bioacoustics #neuroskyence #prattle 💬 🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com
New paper on the social learning of bubble net feeding by humpbacks in British Columbia, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 🐋 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... #marmam @bcwhales.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social [1/5]
The diffusion of cooperative and solo bubble net feeding in Canadian Pacific humpback whales
Abstract. Animal culture, information and behaviours acquired and shared by social learning are a form of biodiversity with intrinsic and practical value.
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🌊 "As an ocean nation, we can & should be leading the way" @hugotagholm.bsky.social The #HighSeasTreaty has entered into force thanks to the 81 countries who ratified it. Incredible news. But where's the UK? The govt MUST move to ratify, before we're left behind www.radionewshub.com/articles/new...
Government criticised for ‘glacial pace’ writing UN high seas treaty into law
The Government is moving at a “glacial pace” to ratify a landmark UN pact to protect delicate ecosystems in international waters, a coalition of green groups has said.
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Porcupine puffer with side-eye so strong it deserves to be a reaction gif 👀🐡 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #sideeye #reactiongif #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity