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New research published in Royal Society Open Science used a combination of remote-sensing technologies to study the effect of naval sonar signals on dolphin behaviour in Southern California. Lead author Dr. Brandon Southall introduces the team's work.

Lara Nellissen, from the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the University of Neuchatel, tells us about her research published in a new Proceedings B paper, a study that investigated decision making by vocal interactions in the highly intelligent western gorillas of the Central African Republic.

Danilo Giacometti and Glenn Tattersall at Brock University explore thermoregulatory strategies of a fossorial salamander in their new research published in Royal Society Open Science.   

We welcome Associate Editor Zegni Triki to the Proceedings B editorial board.

Three new Associate Editors tell us a bit about their research, from ecology to psychology.

A recent issue of Interface Focus examined the idea of convergent minds, which pertains to how distantly related species can think about problem solving in very similar ways. We spoke to the authors of one of the papers from the issue that investigates counting ability in spiders.

Previous research published in Interface has been expanded to include an interdisciplinary combination of a computational model and experimental flow data to compare sniffing performance between two species of crabs.

Some of the fascinating research on brood parasitism discussed in last month’s Croonian lecture by Professor Nick Davies FRS has been published in Proceedings B this week