In the Seeing Voices Project we want to disentangle the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) by using state of the art techniques, like color realistic imagery, virtual reality and robotics. Our work is fun...
Bat fatalities at wind turbines have been reported at many sites and sometimes in alarming numbers. Reducing bat fatalities is important both for species protection and for positive public perception of wind turbines. Currently the only way to substa...
In this project, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation we devolved sonar reflectors, which are inspired by the reflectors bat-pollinated plants. They evolved these passive acoustic signals to attract echolocating bats. Bio-inspired reflectors ...
In this project, which is going on now for almost 10 years, I collect echo-acoustic fingerprints of bat-pollinated flowers, bat dispersed fruits and other bat dependent plants. We found sophisticated echo acoustic adaptations like the dish-shaped lea...
In this project at CoSys-Lab we are developing large scale microphone arrays to track animals. In collaboration with the Sensory Ecology Lab at Boise State University, we developed a 64 microphone array to study the echolocation behavior of Pallid ba...
In collaboration with the Straw Lab at Freiburg University we are developing a virtual reality setup for freely moving birds. We want to use this setup to study the perception of multimodal mating signals in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata). 47c73...