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Before moving to the US, my family and I spent some time living at a small village in the south of Scotland. There we recorded the wing buzz of bees and bumblebees in our garden as a little summer project.
We made the following videos so that people can notice how different species buzz quite differently:
Bombus_pascuorum_final.mp4Apis_mellifera_final.mp42.
Hearing the distress vibration of kissing bugs for the first time was a very impactful event in my career. Unlike many animal signals, this vibration cannot be perceived by humans, but technology allows us to make them accessible to our senses. Sometimes I make videos of the sounds I record for dissemination in social media:
Vinchuca_2_final.mp43.
The artist Ludwig Berger compiled a series of sounds and vibrations produced by insects into an LP and a live performance.
We contributed audio recordings of chilean panda ants (Euspinolia chilensis) and laser Doppler-vibrometry (vibrations) recordings of kissing bugs (Mepraia spinolai) for this project. Listen to them below!
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While doing fieldwork at Barro Colorado Island in Panamá, we were interviewed by the Panamanian National TV channel for the 100th anniversary of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute field station on the island. We spoke about our behavioural experiments with the rocket frogs (Silverstoneia flotator), and the frogs were kind enough to show themselves behaving.
You can see the video by clicking the link below (in Spanish):
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Colleagues from Chile organised a series of talks aimed for a broad audience called 'Chile Bioacústic@' where I was invited to present about the micro-environment and its influence on animal communication.
Below you can see the talk in Spanish:
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