Welcome to Bruck Integrative Biology Lab

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We published a paper in the journal Animals that highlights how reintroduced noises related to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown affected bottlenose dolphin attention and distractibility. This paper has implications for understanding how dolphins unlearn their previous familiarity with human made noise over time.

A mission to save wild dolphins is taking off at Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Teams from SFA and OSU are developing new drones that can get close enough to dolphins to capture some important health information, by catching snot.

Bruck Lab scientists spent a summer at Georgia Aquarium trying to uncover the hidden world of beluga communication, and how human's may affect their communication. 

How much noise is too much noise when it comes to dolphins understanding each others' names? Do dolphins have cognitive tricks they can use to understand each other when humans are being too loud under the sea? That's what we are working on in this project highlighted by CBS 19.

In this first of its kind research, Dr. Bruck provides the novel evidence for multi-decade social memory in a non-human animal. 

Dolphins use signature whistles like names, but could they also go by... flavor? Dr. Bruck worked with scientists at the University of St. Andrews to test whether dolphins can ID their friends by taste-testing pee. Yes, really.