Shark Bay Dolphin Research

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Fun end to a great conference week with a team trip to Rottnest to see the quokkas - how cute are these guys 🤩

So proud of @EmmaChereskin for being awarded the Louis Herman Grant at #PerthSMM2024 for her work on vocal communication, coordination and cooperation in wild dolphins 🫶🙌🏻

Interested in the epigenetics of a culturally transmitted foraging behaviour? Find out more at @DanPapageorgiou poster #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

How does reproductive state influence female response to playbacks of male signature whistles? Go see @Alice_Bchrd poster to find out #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Check out @_laurapalmer93 work on testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in Shark Bay’s bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Excellent but sobering talk by @Flixtter on the impact of an extreme climatic event (marine heatwave) on the survival of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Very exciting talk by @RiccardoCiccia1 presenting the first validation of UAV measures of volumetric body condition indices for investigating bioenergetics in wild bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Fabulous talk by @ManuelaBizzozz3 using remote sensing data and environmental DNA to study the ecology and behaviour of bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @UZH_en

Wonderful plenary by @EllenGarland4 on the cultural basis of humpback whale song. Such elegant work! #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @_SMRU_

So proud of all our team for presenting their research on the Shark Bay dolphins at #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 🐬🐬🐬

Lovely talk by @KathrynGHolmes1 on early life adversity in male bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Super cool talk by @EmmaChereskin using AI deep learning tacking to understand interaction rules among allied male dolphins in a cooperative context #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @BristolBioSci

Fantastic new insight into motor synchrony by @sam_hc_7 - synchronous displays strengthen social bonds in allied male dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @BristolBioSci

Great talk by @PernilleMS on the function of vocal synchrony in allied male bottlenose dolphins - playback experiments provide support for the social bonding hypothesis #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @BristolBioSci

Incredible plenary by our very own Prof Richard Connor @DolphinAlliance - on the multi-level alliances in Shark Bay and our research over the last 40 years - you can’t beat Richard’s enthusiasm and knowledge of dolphin behavioural ecology ❤️#PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

Great talk by @SvenjaMarfurt on seascape genomics, ecological change and adaptation in coastal bottlenose dolphins in WA #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 @UZH_en

For the #SMM2024 conference, I am enjoying a journey out of my comfort zone! Come talk to me about epigenetics and culture at Thursday's poster session (B54)

Excited for the whole team to be attending @marinemammalogy #SMM2024 in Perth on the land of the Whadjuk people. Our very own @SimonJAllen1 kicks things off as conference co-chair @UZH_en @BristolBioSci

Wonderful new paper by our very own @SvenjaMarfurt - so proud of all the amazing work you are doing 🙌🏻