Study links highway noise to disrupted gibbon vocalizations in Malaysian forests

Research suggests traffic noise from nearby roads and development is altering the morning calls of white-handed gibbons in fragmented forest habitats.

First covered Sep 14, 2026 · 10:00 PM PT · 1 article · no longer in the live window

Study links highway noise to disrupted gibbon vocalizations in Malaysian forests — Image via theguardian.com

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12d Guardian Environment They’re the sopranos of the forest, so what’s silencing the gibbons’ morning chorus? — As human development and roads increasingly fragment their habitats, a study suggests traffic noise could be altering the animals’ wake-up call Dawn has…

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aol.co.uk They’re the sopranos of the forest, so what’s silencing the gibbons’ morning chorus? - AOL

frontiersin.org Frontiers | A workflow for the automated detection and classification of female gibbon calls from long-term acoustic recordings

wildambience.com White-handed Gibbon Sounds & Calls | Wild Ambience Nature Sounds

arxiv.org Adaptive synchrosqueezing based on a quilted short-time Fourier transform

Appeared in: 2026-09-15 (#18)

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