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A cartoon of two female crabs talking about a male crab. One of the females is saying "I love watching them wave". The other says "It's even better when they start thumping the sand"
Press release

Love songs in the sand: the rhythm of the fiddler crab

Researchers Tom Mulder and Beth Mortimer have used geophones to 'listen in' to the fascinating courtship displays of Fiddler crabs for the first time.

April 2025

Oxford Biology
Diplodocus dinosaur palaeoart
TV series

Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs

Beth Mortimer and Tarje Nissen-Meyer discuss how researching elephant vibrations can help us understand dinosaur hunting strategies.

Image by Fred Wierum - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 

February 2023

BBC iPlayer
A herd of elephants walking with added concentric lines to represent vibration wavefronts
Article

Rumble in the Jungle

Michael Reinwald and Beth Mortimer explain how keeping an ear to the ground can tell us how elephants are faring in the wild

July 2021

The Conversation