The Call: Edition Three

Thursday 10th June 2021

The Call: Edition Three

View this email in your browser The Call Edition three | Thursday 10th June Welcome to the June Edition of The Call. Last week saw the Interspecies Internet curated session at the Human-Animal Studies Israel (HASI) Conference. Human-Animal Relations: Opportunities and Challenges in Changing Realities. Many thanks to our contributors, who gave fantastic talks; Con Slobodchikoff, Founder and President of Zoolingua, & Professor of Biology Emeritus, Northern Arizona University: Decoding Animal Languages; Irene Pepperberg, Associate, Harvard University: Interspecies Communication between Humans and Grey Parrots and David Sulzer, Professor of neuroscience and musician/composer, Departments Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, School of the Arts, Columbia University: Science and the Arts. If you missed it or would like to watch it again, you can find the link below. Ofer Tchernichovski will give our June lecture on Balanced Imitation Sustains Song Culture in Zebra Finches. Ofer will explore that when birds learn songs, they balance their imitation performance in a manner that maintains a rich and stable culture of song repertoires. Please keep an eye out for more details on the Interspecies Conversations Workshop and Public Conference. We will be announcing details shortly and will be contacting selected contributors very soon. It is set to be a fantastic lineup. Will Davis, COO Interspecies Internet Interspecies Conversations Workshop and Public Conference 30 & 31 July. Save the date! Details to be announced shortly. Lecture Series Ofer Tchernichovski, Balanced Imitation Sustains Song Culture in Zebra Finches. 19.06.21 16:00 BST/ 11:00 EDT Songbirds acquire songs by imitation, as humans do speech. One imitation can be persistently accurate in some families, but poor in others. This is not attributed to genetic differences, but because pupils of tutors with low song diversity make more improvisations. In this manner a frequency dependent balanced imitation prevents extinction of rare song elements and the overabundance of common ones, promoting repertoire diversity within groups while constraining drift across groups, which together prevents the collapse of vocal culture into either complete uniformity or chaos. Register here HASI Conference Human-Animal Relations: Opportunities and Challenges in Changing Realities. Interspecies Internet Curated Session. Interspecies Internet: An idea, now a global initiative. An introduction to the project, status and aspirations. Con Slobodchikoff, Founder and President of Zoolingua, & Professor of Biology Emeritus, Northern Arizona University: Decoding Animal Languages. Irene Pepperberg, Associate, Harvard University: Interspecies Communication between Humans and Grey Parrots. David Sulzer, Professor of neuroscience and musician/composer, Departments Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, School of the Arts, Columbia University: Science and the arts. Our curated session is now available to watch on the Internet Archive. Watch here Share your work We would love to see photos of your day-to-day Interspecies Communication work. If you would like to send in any photos from your work, research or animal interactions that you would be happy to share with the community on our social media, please email pictures to photo@interspecies.io along with a short caption and your social media handles. photo@interspecies.io Join the conversation: Please join us in a shared communications space for the Interspecies Internet community. Copyright (C) 2024 Interspecies Internet. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Interspecies Internet 4 St Margarets Grove London, SE18 7RL United Kingdom Add us to your address book Update Preferences | Unsubscribe