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Arik Kershenbaum

@arikkershenbaum.bsky.social
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Zoologist at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Author of 'The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy' and 'Why Animals Talk' bit.ly/482925U. Animal communication researcher, www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A conversation with Thomas Villa from the Exo-Life Finder project exolife-finder.com Here we talk about biology, physics, and the evolution of intelligent life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TA...
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Arik Kershenbaum in Conversation with Thomas Villa • Song for the Stars Salon II
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thomasemiliovilla.bsky.social @thomasemiliovilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watch now our interview with dr. @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social #songsforthestars www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TA... cc: @pcoffeebreak.bsky.social
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Arik Kershenbaum in Conversation with Thomas Villa • Song for the Stars Salon II
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Angela Dassow opens our symposium on Leveraging new bioaccoustics advances for behaviour- informed conservation with her talk: Applications of real-time AI for conservation and human-wildlife coexistence
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Join me at the annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) in Leeds on August 21, where I'll be giving a plenary talk on: "If language makes us human, where does that leave animals?" esssatconference.org/program/ @esssat.bsky.social
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What an honour! This article in @theatlantic.com names "The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy" along with Carl Sagan's "Contact" and "Cosmos" as their choice of "Six Books That Take You to Space" www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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Six Books That Take You to Space
You won’t even have to leave your couch.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Honoured to be part of the judging committee for the 🐺🐭📣 COLLER DOLITTLE CHALLENGE FOR TWO-WAY INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION The public Award Ceremony is 25 JUNE 2026 - register free: 👉 zoom.us/webinar/regi... to hear the amazing discoveries from this year’s finalists!
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here I am in a nice detailed podcast about the evolution of communication and what that means about human brains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ahn...
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Arik Kershenbaum: The Evolution of Communication in Animals and Humans | Episode 115
YouTube video by Brain Shaman
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Will humans and animals ever be able to converse? Here’s what I say... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Will humans and animals ever be able to converse? Here’s what science says.
In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Read more about our project to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on the alarm calls of prey animals www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/eavesdr...
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Eavesdropping on wildlife to reduce human-tiger conflict | Department of Zoology
A recent paper led by Dr Arik Kershenbaum, a College Associate Professor here in Zoology, describes how both wildlife and humans could benefit from networks of acoustic detectors to monitor tiger acti...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New documentary on PBS: Can Dogs Talk? www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi... Do "speech buttons" really allow our dogs to speak to us? I'm one of a number of scientists interviewed, and the answer is...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨🐯 BIG NEW PAPER OUT! 🐯🚨 "An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls" 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅 We used AI to do real-time detection of deer alarm calls and warn villagers when there's a tiger in the area zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls
Tiger population recovery brings with it increased fatalities from human-tiger conflict. We describe a network of autonomous intelligent passive acoustic sensors that monitor the forest for deer alar...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
📢How animals reveal secrets of our intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUfq... #AI, #LLM, and animal communication, with Tim El-Sheikh from The CEO Retort
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Leading zoologist: How animals reveal secrets of our intelligence
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I've just joined the scientific committee of the @CollerDolittle Prize coller-dolittle-24.sites.tau.ac.il offering $100,000 each year for scientific research that has used a non-invasive approach to communicate with or decipher an organism’s communication. Submit by the deadline of September 30th!
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🐯🦌🔊Read about the amazing work we're doing in Nepal to prevent human-tiger conflict using AI devices that listen out for deer alarm calls! greatplainsfoundation.com/tiger-conser... And don't forget to watch the fantastic video by @Grizanderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVL...
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Tiger Conservation in Nepal: Real-Time Acoustic Monitoring for Coexistence - Great Plains Foundation
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Once again, Star Trek nails social commentary. Even if the conflict in the Middle East is "over some piece of land", the reality is that "the basis for peace must be personal". Movements like @standing-together.bsky.social and Hand in Hand (www.handinhandk12.org) are building that peace.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📣Check out the Listening Fields podcast, where I talk to the fantastic Dr Vickie Pham about recording animals in the wild, meaning & information in animal calls, and how we use acoustic monitoring to aid conservation of critically endangered species 🐅 soundcloud.com/faderadio/li...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New paper! Using AI to track the frequency of vocalisations across a (very) wide range of species www.ricardmarxer.com/f0-bioacoust... In wolves, dolphins, etc, the up-down of frequency of their calls is where all the information is. Neural nets can do this automatically! ‪
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Congratulations Dr ‪@simon-kershenbaum.bsky.social‬ on his first lead author paper 🎉http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225012969 Variation in phenotype, genotype, and somatic diversity among asexual Schmidtea mediterranea planarians
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just finished reading Ittay Flescher's remarkable book, "The Holy and the Broken". If you are tired of endless dehumanisation of both sides do come to his book launch at Girton College, Cambridge, on July 16th. Sign up on the link here actionnetwork.org/events/the-h... @ukfost.bsky.social
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
On July 16 I'll be hosting Ittay Flescher for a talk about his book "The Holy and the Broken" - how communities can work together to overcome the hatred and the destruction that we see around us in Israel and Palestine. 6:30 Girton College. Free. Book here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-h...
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Ricard Marxer @ricard.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
There's been a lot of coverage in the media recently of AI and dolphin communication. Here's a good @sciam.bsky.social SciAm podcast that speaks to the actual scientists @drdherzing.bsky.social Denise Herzing about what they're doing. (and to me too) www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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An AI-Assisted Chat with Dolphins
A large language model for dolphin vocalization could let us better understand these beloved marine mammals
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A packed meeting to hear Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, leaders of @ukfost.bsky.social Standing Together, speak about the role of a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in opposing the war in Gaza and in building a cooperative, multinational society.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Finally the book is published! PRIMATES IN PERIL: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023–2025 Updated information about the cao vit gibbon! Link download: static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120... www.facebook.com/share/p/1E6p...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A reminder of the meeting next week in Cambridge where you can hear from the leaders of Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social working to bring together #Jewish and #Palestinian citizens of #Israel. Sign up on the link below: actionnetwork.org/events/build...
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Building power through Jewish-Palestinian solidarity: Hear Standing Together leaders speak in Cambridge
UK Friends of Standing Together is proud to host Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, two members of the Standing Together leadership, for a speaking tour in the UK. Standing Together is a grassroots social ...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Cold-blooded culture?" A great new paper out by my collegues Angela Dassow and Holly Root-Gutteridge @hollyhowls.bsky.social and others on the phenomenon of: 🦎🐍🐊🐢CULTURE IN REPTILES 🦎🐍🐊🐢 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Cold-blooded culture? Assessing cultural behaviour in reptiles and its potential conservation implications | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
It is becoming clear that the cognition of a species plays an important role in successful conservation, with cultural processes being a fundamental part of this. However, in contrast to mammals and b...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
📣Cambridge, come hear Amin and Uri, two leaders of STANDING TOGETHER, a grassroots movenment that mobilises Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel against war, occupation, and racism. Thursday May 15 6pm, Woolf Institute, Cambridge actionnetwork.org/events/build... @ukfost.bsky.social
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The pace of discoveries in the search for alien life is picking up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If you want to know more about what life will be like on other planets, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy is a good place to start www.penguin.co.uk/books/314542... #scicomm #astrobiology
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Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
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New AI Models Could Let Us Chat with Dolphins
Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Another cool podcast, if you want to know more about animal communication 🦧📣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGy... #scicom
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Arik Kershenbaum - Why Animals Talk
YouTube video by A Fresh Face in Hell with Jonathan Evison
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Here I am talking to Kensy Cooperrider of the @divintelligence.bsky.social podcast about animal communication and animal minds... 🧠 We take a detailed look at why animals make the sounds they make, and what that says about animal consciousness.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🚨📣New paper alert! The jackals are coming! 🦊 We show how we've used a network of acoustic monitoring devices to pinpoint the locations of jackals, which are spreading through Romania and surrounding areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Acoustic Localisation as a Tool to Aid Monitoring of Golden Jackals (Canis aureus)
In this study, we tested the low-cost CARACAL recorder for acoustic localisation of golden jackals in Romania. We successfully detected and localised jackal howls, recommending an optimal recorder sp....
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
1/3 Watched @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost successfully land on the moon this morning, together with my team from @interstellarfdn.bsky.social. It was a late night for them (3am)...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Inquiry, with Mark Lynch on WICN 90.5 "Wild animals make a lot of noise. They sing, call, yowl, scream, you name it. They certainly appear to be communicating, but do animals have a language? Could a human ever hold an actual conversation with a wild animal?" wicn.org/podcast/dr-a...
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Dr. Arik Kershenbaum - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
Wild animals make a lot of noise. They sing, call, yowl, scream, you name it. They certainly appear to be communicating, but do animals have a language? Could a human ever hold an actual conversation ...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Listen to this episode of the The Colin McEnroe Show where I talk about how we can understand what animals are saying, and @federicorossano.bsky.social talks about training dogs to communicate with us by pressing buttons www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...
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The secret language of animals and how we're learning to understand it
This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we learn about how animals communicate with one another and what it can teach us about human language.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📢Another podcast, with a different direction. This time I'm talking about #animal #communication with BrainShaman, a "philosophical and scientific journey towards better brain health." www.brainshaman.com/2067421/epis... #scicomm
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Arik Kershenbaum: The Evolution of Animal and Human Communication | Episode 115 - Brain Shaman
This is an interview with zoologist Arik Kershenbaum about communication in animals and humans.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Who's planning to go to Behaviour 2025 in Kolkata? behaviourindia2025.in
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Yesterday, 11th of Shvat, was the second anniversary of Darwin's passing 💔💔💔 Those of you who knew him, please remember a dog who was always there to cheer up anyone he met, and whose absence still weighs so heavily on those who loved him
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A new podcast with me discussing Why Animals Talk (this time with video!) from The Point Blank Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0qc...
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Arik Kershenbaum on why animals talk
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days (JJBA) is a scientific conference designed by and for young researchers in the field of bioacoustics. jjbioacoustique.wixsite.com/jjba/en/insc...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
📚 A nice little review of "Why Animals Talk" bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/a...
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“A great adventure in animal behaviour and linguistics” – Why Animals Talk by Arik Kershenbaum
“The many questions raised demonstrate just how varied, exciting and complicated animal societies are, and while we as humans exist in our bubbles, hundreds of thousands of smaller, independe…
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
1/3 🐯🧵I work with local communities in #Nepal to find ways of coexisiting with #tiger populations. The loss of human life is staggering, but it's not just a question of "too many tigers". The interaction between humans and the environment is key... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🏅"Why Animals Talk" has been named part of the American Library Association’s 2025 Notable Books List: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry! global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcement...
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Spotlight on Our 2025 ALA Award Winners!
Spotlight on Our 2025 ALA Award Winners! #TeamPRH
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Chúc mừng năm mới cho tất cả các bạn và đồng nghiệp người Việt Nam của tôi! Happy Tết to all my Vietnamese friends and colleagues! và tất cả các thành viên của Nhóm Giám Sát Vượn. and all the members of the FFI #Vietnam Gibbon Conservation Team.
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🌔 Up at 06:00 to watch the launch of the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost mission to the moon along with the rest of the Interstellar Foundation's mission team. BG carries the IF's ASPIRE One message our first step designing a theoretical framework for planetary-scale archival communication
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
There ARE wolves here... @yellowstonenationalpark
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Back in Yellowstone National Park 🤩. Lots of hiking through the snow, but worth it for all the wolf howls 🐺
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
New podcast! www.paulmeier.com/2025/01/01/e...
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Episode 84 ("Why Animals Talk")
A Conversation with Arik Kershenbaum For the January 2025 , Paul and his guest, distinguished Cambridge zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, discuss, in a first for this podcast, the speech of non-humans. Why ...
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 02/01/2025
Just finished this really interesting book by @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social His exploration of WHY took him down some fascinating paths: eg the connection between song & emotion as a way to think about how understanding is conveyed reminded me of the book Hidden Spring by Mark Solms.
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Why Animals Talk by Arik Kershenbaum: 9780593654934 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
My prediction for what will happen in 2025 in the field of animal communication research. In @wired.com www.wired.com/story/artifi...
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The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?
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