Just another day in the bay #DirkHartog #SharkBay

Final day in Shark Bay #Gathaaguda as we wrap up an exhausting but highly successful field trip. We finished up two different playback studies and documented some incredible behaviour! Until November Shark Bay 🫶

Excited to participate in FUTURES today and answer any questions concerning my research on bottlenose dolphins 🐬 Ask me anything this afternoon at 1:30pm UTC on reddit.com/r/IAmA/ #FUTURES2024

Looking forward to seeing the Shark Bay dolphins Shark Bay Dolphin Research in this new series! 🐬🐬🐬

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 Pernille M Sørensen on the function of vocal synchrony in allied male bottlenose dolphins - playback experiments provide support for the social bonding hypothesis #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Fantastic new insight into motor synchrony by Sam Hill-Cousins - synchronous displays strengthen social bonds in allied male dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Super cool talk by Emma Chereskin using AI deep learning tacking to understand interaction rules among allied male dolphins in a cooperative context #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Kelly Jaakkola from Dolphin Research Ctr presenting our work on recruitment and cooperative intent in bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

If you happen to be at the #SMM2024, come by to see my poster - Behaviour session 17:30 - if you want to know about how to study turn-taking in dolphins! #PerthSMM2024 Marine Mammalogy Cedar Key Dolphin Project

Wonderful plenary by Ellen Garland on the cultural basis of humpback whale song. Such elegant work! #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 SMRU (now posting at Bluesky)

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

Stunning plenary by Mauricio Cantor on why cooperation matters for dolphins and fishers, and why we should safeguard cultural human-dolphin cooperative fishing #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

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

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

Last minute team changes mean we have a position open at short notice. Starts mid-Jan, application deadline Nov 21, costs covered & small stipend. DM for any questions - it’ll be full-on algae fishing fun times!!! Pls RT

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

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

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

How do dolphins use vocal signals when cooperating? Check out Mackenzie Meier poster to find out more #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024