New cover image for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Starting with the August issue, BES has a new cover image showing an humpback whale.

A surface active humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrating along the eastern coastline of Australia, from the breeding grounds in the Great Barrier Reef, to feeding grounds in the Antarctic. Whilst migrating, male humpback whales are still attempting to breed with females. They use various acoustic signals (e.g. singing, vocal calls and surface-generated sounds from surface behaviours) to mediate these breeding interactions. Photo credits: Cetacean Ecology and Acoustics Laboratories.

For more information see

Dunlop RA, Noad RJ (2021) The eavesdropping risk of conspicuous sexual signaling in humpback whales. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 75:124