Mongabay Newscast

Dena Clink is a primatologist studying individuality and variation in Bornean gibbon calls, which she says could aid these primates' conservation. She joins this episode to play some recordings of these fascinating songs & calls she’s made in the course of her research, and explain how they're used and what they may mean to the species. We’ve featured a wide variety of bioacoustics studies here on the Mongabay Newscast, from whales to bats and birds, but these are usually recordings of species at the population level. Our guest today focuses on how calls vary between each gibbon, and what that can teach us about the animals, and their conservation needs. Here’s this episode’s top news: Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhino dies, leaving Indonesia as the final refuge Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows Amazon deforestation rises to 11 year high in Brazil Agroforestry program in Appalachia receives $590,000 in federal funding If you enjoy this show, please invite your fr