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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: How haunting gibbon songs can aid their conservation
Description: 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...