We bridge science, media, and technology to explore animal culture.

Responsible AI models that unlock our ability investigate animal communication and culture, and act as optimistic examples of AI beyond human language and productivity.

Empirical science that combines our AI techniques with big data from wild animal populations to explore fundamental questions about the social lives of other species.

Media, sound, installations, and public experiences that translate animal communication research into forms that people can feel, hear, and imagine.

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Zebra Finches Transform Random Songs to Exhibit Linguistic Laws

Animal Cognition, 2026 | DOI 10.1007/s10071-026-02058-0

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Reed Circuit

A live performance where a musician and an AI trained on bird song develop a shared musical language inspired by the vocal dynamics of the Blyth’s reed warbler.

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Alaka’i 1777

An immersive audiovisual installation that returns, in fragments, the lost song culture of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō—an extinct Hawaiian bird.

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Language-like efficiency in whale communication

Science Advances, 2025 | DOI 10.1126/sciadv.ads6014

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Involuntary Ghosts

A four-channel spatial audio performance imagining birds in Beijing's changing environment singing for their lost kin.

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Vocal efficiency in crows

Animal Cognition, 2025 | DOI 10.1007/s10071-025-01985-8

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Convergent evolution in whale and human vocal cultures

Science, 2025 | DOI 10.1126/science.adv2318

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chatter: A Python library for applying information theory and AI/ML models to animal communication

arXiv, 2025 | DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2512.17935

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Chatter

An open-source tool for exploring how animals communicate.

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Temporal stability in songs across the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (mourning warbler) may be due to learning fidelity and transmission biases

Ornithology, 2025 | DOI 10.1093/ornithology/ukae046

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Rehabilitation outcomes of bird-building collision victims in the Northeastern United States

PLoS ONE, 2024 | DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0306362

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Language-like efficiency and structure in house finch song

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2024 | DOI 10.1098/rspb.2024.0250

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Deep Listening for Nonhuman Perspective-Taking

A participatory, immersive sound workshop exploring the sensory worlds and vocal cultures of nonhuman life.

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All intelligence is collective intelligence

Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience, 2023 | DOI 10.56280/1564736810

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Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song

Animal Behaviour, 2022 | DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.012

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Female song can be as long and complex as male song in wild house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2020 | DOI 10.1676/19-00126

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Relationship between personality and cognitive traits in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

bioRxiv, 2020 | DOI 10.1101/2020.10.12.336024

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A Raspberry Pi-based, RFID-equipped birdfeeder for the remote monitoring of wild bird populations

Ringing & Migration, 2019 | DOI 10.1080/03078698.2019.1759908

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A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution

Palgrave Communications, 2018 | DOI 10.1057/s41599-018-0175-8

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