Animal Chatter
Nakul Wewhare
I am a PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University studying how animals learn, structure, and use vocal signals in social life.
My work sits at the intersection of bioacoustics, animal communication, vocal learning, and social behaviour. I am especially interested in how vocal sequences encode identity, social relationships, and coordination.
bioacoustics animal communication vocal learning social networks sequence structure
Current Base
Princeton University
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Themes
- Vocal labeling and matching of others
- Social coordination and cooperation
- Vocal sequences and syntax structure
On This Site
Papers, project summaries, short writing, contact details, and a downloadable CV.
Featured Work
Sequence-Level Vocal Convergence in Common Marmosets
This project develops sequence-comparison methods to quantify syntactic convergence and accommodation in a social primate.
Parrot Vocal Sequences Across Species
Comparative work on parrots explores repetition, sequence structure, and higher-order organization in complex vocal displays.
Selected Publications
Individual-specific associations between warble song notes and body movements in budgerigar courtship displays
Biology Open (2024), with Anand Krishnan.
Paper and First Person interview.
Higher-order dialect variation and syntactic convergence in the complex warble song of budgerigars
Journal of Experimental Biology (2023), with A. J. J. Madabhushi, P. Binwal, V. Agarwal, and Anand Krishnan.
Paper.
What You Can Use This Site For
- Browse research projects without digging through a CV.
- Find publication links quickly.
- Follow short blog posts and research notes.
- Download a current PDF CV.
Start Here
If you are new to my work, the best places to begin are the research page, the publications page, and the blog.
Social Networks and Vocal Learning in Budgerigars
My master’s thesis asks how fission-fusion dynamics and social-network position shape changes in vocal repertoires through time.