Anahita Verahrami

Ana Verahrami at Dzanga Bai, Central African Republic (CAR)

Ana Verahrami at Dzanga Bai, Central African Republic (CAR)

I completed my undergrad degree at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2017, where I majored in the Interdisciplinary Studies of Biology, Ecology, and Anthropology. During my senior year, I began volunteering with the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) and subsequently discovered my interest in utilizing acoustic monitoring as a conservation tool. Since graduating from Cornell, I have begun working with ELP as a research assistant and have been able to work closely with ELP’s post-doctoral associate, Daniela Hedwig, on several projects that aim to investigate the function of forest elephant vocalizations. I am currently exploring how forest elephant visitation and behavior has been affected by increasing human pressure along the Gabon-Congo border. Beginning this March, I will be continuing my work with ELP at Dzanga bai in the Central African Republic. Under this project, I will be collecting data on Dzanga’s elephants and helping to train a new observation team.

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Year Hired: 2017

Contact Information
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
153A Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Phone: +1.607.254.2136
Email: akv27@cornell.edu

Degrees: B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies, Cornell University, 2017

Organizations: Sigma Alpha, FEZANA United Nations NGO Committee

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Verahrami, A. et al. (2025) “Forest elephants modulate their behaviour to adapt to sounds of danger,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1928), p. 20240051. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0051.
Hedwig, D., Verahrami, A.K. and Wrege, P.H. (2019) “Acoustic structure of forest elephant rumbles: a test of the ambiguity reduction hypothesis,” Animal Cognition [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01304-y.