Posts by Dina Mostafa
“Why keep your mouth shut?” Inshore South African Bryde’s whales abort lunges within feeding dives.
Rorqual whales exhibit foraging plasticity to maximize their energy intake and reduce the cost of feeding manoeuvres. Bryde’s whales ar...
Threatened synanthropes depend on intact forests: a critical evaluation of Moore et al. (2023).
Synanthropes are known for their remarkable adaptability to coexist with humans, yet increased visibility exposes them to significant t...
Size-specific strategies of sympatric cetaceans to reduce heat loss.
Maintaining a stable core body temperature is essential for endotherms. Cetaceans live in a highly thermally conductive medium, requiri...
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration.
There is a vast and ever‐accumulating amount of behavioural data on individually recognised animals, an incredible resource to shed lig...
Biphonation in animal vocalizations: insights into communicative functions and production mechanisms.
Biphonation, defined as the simultaneous production of two distinct, non-harmonically related fundamental frequencies, has traditionall...
Nonlinear phenomena in vertebrate vocalizations: mechanisms and communicative functions.
Nonlinear phenomena (NLP) are acoustic irregularities that are widespread in animal and human vocal repertoires, as well as in music. T...
Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages
Humans and other animals communicate a large quantity of information vocally through nonverbal means. Here, we review the domains of an...
Long distance calls: Negligible information loss of little auk social vocalisations due to high frequency propagation losses
How well does the information contained in vocal signals travel through the environment? To assess the efficiency of information transf...