Fork-tailed drongos in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert can produce up to 51 distinct mimicked alarm calls and deploy them selectively against whichever neighboring species holds the most food.

With that conviction at its core, DATALAND has partnered with to create an aural environment unlike anything found in any ...

This Saturday, May 9, is birding's biggest day. It is called Global Big Day, an annual 24-hour event in which thousands of people around the world help crowdsource sightings of birds for the Cornell ...

A new project in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve will install bioacoustics devices that can “listen” for illegal activity, using AI models trained to identify chainsaws, gunshots and other sounds ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

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The ESC-50 dataset is a labeled collection of 2000 environmental audio recordings suitable for benchmarking methods of environmental sound classification. The dataset consists of 5-second-long ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Wildlife poaching is a serious issue in many parts of the world. One way of monitoring ...

Orcasound maintains a hydrophone network in Puget Sound (near Seattle, WA, USA, Northeast Pacific). Killer whales (aka orcas) often swim by these hydrophones (underwater microphones) and vocalize with ...

In this paper, we propose an audio spectrogram transformer (AST) for sequential inference and evaluate its real- time performance. ASTs are pre-trained in a self-supervised manner, such as masked ...

Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, the deputy editor at So Yummy and the senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 12 years, Anna has also written ...