Building on the success of being involved in the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) we'd love to invite all our African Collaborators to get on the international map with WOPAM and Make Africa Heard! #acoustics #marinescience

Look at out #Soundtrap just sneaking in on the Acoustic Tracking Array Platform mooring there...off to recording some humpback whale calls over the migration season for Erin Ross-Marsh PhD work. Go listen for the those whale moans little hydrophones.

Winter fieldwork in Mossel Bay has officially begun! Time to find some chatty dolphins 🎙️🐬 Rachel Probert and Guilherme Frainer will be working with @oceans_research over the next few months to boost our whistle catalogue for endangered humpback dolphins 🤘🏽

Sea Search Director Dr Simon Elwen will be on CapeTalk on 567AM at 10h35 this morning to talk about the unusual situation of killer whales 'attacking' boats around Spain. Why now? What do they want? Will it happen here? Tune in to learn more.

doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… I am so glad to see this paper published, resulting from a stunning collaboration between our research groups to understand more about African penguin vocal communication! Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social Marco Gamba Filippo Carugati Anna Zanoli SANCCOB Katta

Proud of team member Franziska Feist and this international team for their recent publication on endangered African Penguin vocal activity and implications for Acoustic Censusing. Well Done team and happy International African Penguin Awareness Day! 🔊🐧 mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/9…

What do we know about killer whales in SA? Come to our talk tonight in Hout Bay at the Atlantic Boat Club, or on the 21st Feb at the Two Oceans Aquarium By Simon Elwen and incoming PhD student Aaron Barnes.

Only 5 days left to submit abstracts - African Bioacoustics Conference in Cape Town - Oct 2024. (Other continents welcome but a strong focus on building links in Africa)! Always a great conference!

Lots of learning this week. And networking :) interesting seeing that many of the detection and classifier methods seem to be plateauing in what they can achieve. Also "the humpback problem" too many noisy variable hbw songs making it hard to find other rarer whales!

Exciting new paper out on seal vocalisations from our collab with the @bioacteam - Mathilde Martin and Isabelle Charrier. Includes a cover photo a nice editorial on Mathilde's career development into the highly successful ECR that she currently is!

African Bioacoustics Conference Registration deadline looming (we do have to prebook some things!)! Join us at the V&A Waterfront in just a few weeks to listen learn share and network on #Bioacoustics The African Bioacoustics Community

A busy week of conferencing for the Sea Search team this past week at the largest gathering of ocean conservationists in the world at the #IMCC7 - Simon and Sasha also presented some of their work looking at the more elusive species along our coastlines #doinggoodscience

We’ve teamed up with Tropical Studies to create a new course designed for those interested in furthering their careers in bioacoustics - bonus - it’s based in the stunning Kruger National Park - an acoustic hotspot! 🦁🦇🐘🦜🎧🔉

This is what rabies looks like in cape fur seal pups. The past two weeks have seen the first positive rabies cases in pups, with tired pups finding themselves on our beaches. Please keep dogs and children away and report unusual behaviours. Video taken by Animal Ocean