Dr Arik Kershenbaum

Wolves & other canids	Human-tiger conflict	Gibbons	Dolphins & cetaceans
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I study the vocal behaviour of wolves the United States, as well as Europe and the Middle East. I am particularly interested in the use of different vocalisations in different behavioural contexts, like territorial interactions, and cohesion calls between distant individuals. This information can help us design conservation and management strategies that prevent conflict between wildlife and humans.	Tiger populations in Nepal have been growing as part of a conservation success story. But more tigers means more conflict with humans. We have deployed an acoustic monitoring system that can warn villagers of tiger danger by listening for and automatically detecting the alarm calls of spotted deer.	We use the acoustics technology that we have developed to monitor and track the habitat use of the critically endangered Cao Vit gibbon in Vietnam, of which only 70 animals remain in the world. By triangulating their calls, we can assess movement and inter-group interaction, which are critical conservation goals for this unique primate.	Understanding dolphin communication is particularly difficult because they are hard to follow in the wild, and their behaviour in captivity is highly restricted. In Eilat, Israel, I study a pod of free-ranging dolphins that are habituated to human presence, and so give us the opportunity to examine the link between vocal and social behaviour. The way that dolphins encode information into sound is more complex and more unusual than we previously thought.

Wolves & other canids

Human-tiger conflict

Gibbons

Dolphins & cetaceans

I study the vocal behaviour of wolves the United States, as well as Europe and the Middle East. I am particularly interested in the use of different vocalisations in different behavioural contexts, like territorial interactions, and cohesion calls between distant individuals. This information can help us design conservation and management strategies that prevent conflict between wildlife and humans.

Tiger populations in Nepal have been growing as part of a conservation success story. But more tigers means more conflict with humans. We have deployed an acoustic monitoring system that can warn villagers of tiger danger by listening for and automatically detecting the alarm calls of spotted deer.

We use the acoustics technology that we have developed to monitor and track the habitat use of the critically endangered Cao Vit gibbon in Vietnam, of which only 70 animals remain in the world. By triangulating their calls, we can assess movement and inter-group interaction, which are critical conservation goals for this unique primate.

Understanding dolphin communication is particularly difficult because they are hard to follow in the wild, and their behaviour in captivity is highly restricted. In Eilat, Israel, I study a pod of free-ranging dolphins that are habituated to human presence, and so give us the opportunity to examine the link between vocal and social behaviour. The way that dolphins encode information into sound is more complex and more unusual than we previously thought.