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Stephanie L King

@stephanielking.bsky.social

Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Stephanie L King@stephanielking.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another new paper out this week: A culturally transmitted foraging technique in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins can be predicted by DNA-methylation levels royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

A culturally transmitted foraging technique in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins can be predicted by DNA-methylation levels

Abstract. Cultural repertoires can influence access to resources and fitness across species, impacting individuals' environmental niches and social network

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Online Now: Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria

Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria

In recent years, several claims have been put forth suggesting that animals of different species address each other using receiver-specific calls that function as individual names. If accurate, this would demonstrate a capacity for symbolic social reference that has rarely been documented in nonhuman communication systems. To evaluate such claims, we propose three minimal criteria for identifying names: individual reference, symbolic representation, and shared meaning. We then review the evidence relevant to these criteria in the species for which name-like calls have been suggested: spectacled parrotlets, common marmosets, African elephants, and bottlenose dolphins. Together, these criteria provide a clear and theoretically grounded framework for exploring the use of name-like calls in nonhuman animals.

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Peter Cook@pfcook.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great work from Simone Videsen. We found sperm whale slow clicks maintain extreme isochrony with inter-click intervals up to ~10s. That's beyond any known neural system for precise interval timing. May be a long-distance communication system. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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In this study, we show that male sperm whales produce low-frequency slow clicks at low repetition rates with extreme source levels > 200 dB re 1 µPa (pp), making them the loudest mammalian communicat...

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Kai Caspar@nomascus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Do elephants adress one another with vocalizations that function like human personal names, as was widely reported two years ago? Dharmarajan (2026) argues that this finding may have been just a methodological artefact. 🐘🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Effects of bias when using ‘black box’ models: re-evaluating the evidence for the use of name-like calls by elephants

Machine learning (ML) tools can detect patterns in complex high-dimensional data sets, providing new ways to obtain insights into animal behaviour. Ho…

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Liran Samuni@lirsamuni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bonobos and bottlenose dolphins may seem worlds apart, but together they reveal key conditions that foster cooperation beyond group boundaries

Stephanie L King@stephanielking.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.