Teaching & Outreach

Selected Media Appearances

Passive electroreception in the bottlenose dolphin

International media

Nature Research Highlights, 30.11.2023: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03750-8

New York Times, 30.11.2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/science/dolphins-electric-fields-sense.html

Science, 04.12.2023: https://www.science.org/content/article/dolphins-can-feel-electricity

New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2405730-bottlenose-dolphins-can-sense-electric-fields-with-their-snouts/

El País, 01.12.2023: https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-11-30/los-delfines-mulares-tienen-un-septimo-sentido-sienten-la-electricidad.html

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-12-01/bottlenose-dolphins-have-a-seventh-sense-they-can-feel-electricity.html

ScienceNews, 30.11.2023: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bottlenosed-dolphins-sense-electric-fields-hunt-prey

Smithsonian Magazine, 01.12.203: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bottlenose-dolphins-may-have-an-electric-sense-study-finds-180983358/

Psychology Today, Animal Minds: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/animal-minds/202311/bottlenose-dolphins-sense-electricity

INVERSE, 30.11.2023: https://www.inverse.com/science/bottlenose-dolphins-sense-electroreception-electric-fields-perception

EurekAlert, 30.11.2023: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1008911

German media

STERN, 01.12.2023: https://www.stern.de/panorama/wissen/navigation–delfine-spueren-schwache-elektrische-felder-34248924.html

Spektrum, 01.12.2023: https://www.spektrum.de/news/sinne-delfine-spueren-elektrische-felder/2200264

FAZ, 01.12.2023: https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/delfine-spueren-schwache-elektrische-felder-19352952.html

Bioacoustic research

ScienceNewsExplores, 02.11. 2023: Meet robots on a mission to help birds

Frankfurter Allgemeine, 06.05.2023, Ein dichter Pelz für die akustische Bühne

Galileo (German TV), 30.06.2022https://www.prosieben.de/serien/galileo/videos/tierisch-bekifft-so-werden-tiere-high

Discover Magazine, 14.11.2020: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-secrets-of-bat-echolocation-could-help-robots-navigate-with-sound

Pro7, Galileo, Episode 171, 30.06.2022 • 19:05, Tierisch bekifft – so werden Tiere high

Netflix, Our Planet II, 2019: Our research on the bat and pitcher plant mutualism and their sophisticated acoustic communication system via plant reflectors is featured in the new Netflix documentary Our Planet II: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/80049832 (Episode 3, Min 21:30 ff)

DisneyPlus, Super/Natural, 2023: Check out episode 5 with beautiful scenes of nectar-feeding bats approaching Mucuna holtonii flowers, which have acoustic guides to draw in bats – the visualization of the sound is just amazing.