WildWooHoo - creative studio for the animal kingdom, including us
WildWooHoo turns behavioural ecology into songs, films, characters, and educational programmes that travel. Animal behaviour, sociality and evolution are the source; popular culture is the surface. Despite all we have built, we are still part of the animal kingdom.
We don't make work about the wild. We make work that comes from it. From behavioural research, animal societies, ecological change, evolutionary biology, and the parallels between human and non-human life. Hierarchy. Identity. Belonging. Coexistence. Care. Change. We notice these patterns in other animals first - and that often helps us understand ourselves more clearly.
Songs, music videos, animated series, books, classroom moments, public performances. We work in whatever form will travel, hoping the work enters mainstream music and entertainment, because cultural reach is what turns an idea into social impact.
Founded by Dr WELI, Sydney-based Brazilian-born music artist and behavioural ecologist (PhD, ANU). Winner of Science Magazine's Dance Your PhD 2024. Falling Walls Engage 2025 Top 30 worldwide. WildWooHoo has carried this work to 238+ media features across five continents.
We are a home of creation, not a service studio. Our own projects, our own audience, our own path to impact. We welcome creative collaborators, research partners, commissioners, and funders who want to build something the world actually feels.
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Flagship: Kangaroo Time
Built from Dr WELI's PhD research on kangaroo behaviour. Winner of Science Magazine's Dance Your PhD 2024. Travelled across 238+ outlets.
Winner Science Magazine's Dance Your PhD 2024 · international
238+
Media features worldwide
155K+
Flagship video views
5
Continents reached
Top 30
Falling Walls Engage 2025
The founder
Founded by Dr WELI
Brazilian born, Sydney based behavioural ecologist (PhD ANU) and recording artist. The artist surface is WELI. The founder, academic, and science-communicator surface is Dr WELI. Same person, two professional names for two industries.
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Recent wins, features, and signal from the studio and the wider WildWooHoo world.
Dance Your PhD 2024, overall winner
Science Magazine and AAAS. Kangaroo Time wins the global prize.
Watch: Kangaroo Time
The flagship music video, 155K+ views
"A musical celebration of kangaroo behavior."
Smithsonian Magazine
The Guardian
Global feature on the project
Falling Walls Engage 2025
Top 30 worldwide, for transforming science into compelling public communication
"Kangaroos with a gay dance anthem - never thought I'd talk about it on the radio."
Patricia Karvelas, RN Breakfast
NPR, All Things Considered
Research, identity, and performance
Kangaroo Time Kids
School-facing extension. Primary and lower-secondary STEAM.
"I don't even know what I just watched - but it's an interpretive dance devoted to kangaroos."
Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC
