It’s the LAST DAY of the #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge! Be sure to share your photos by 8pm BST. We’re wrapping up this incredible week of celebrating #conservationtech by taking a look at bioacoustics!
Have you ever wondered what a bird’s song or a bat’s wing vibrations can tell us about their behavior? Bioacoustics, one of the fastest growing fields, has the answer.
In the past, we’ve seen passive acoustic monitoring used to record soundscapes in Southern Madagascar and monitor critically endangered Cao Vit Gibbons. Researchers also took bioacoustics tech to the sea, using drones equipped with hydrophones to study the acoustic behavior of gray whales in Mexico.
Share how you’re using bioacoustics by posting photos, videos, and stories to social media with the hashtag #Tech4Wildlife!
Tune into some bioacoustics-related submissions past and present:
2024
5 likes, 0 comments - we.are.tohora on August 5, 2024: "Connection is conservation 🐋 We reconnect people with whales, nature and themselves. The sound of humpback whales has an incredible impact on people. It recalls a feeling of care, connection and deeper meaning towards life and the protection of those incredible mammals of the deep and fast ocean. We use noise canceling headphones for the ultimate experience at public events and 1:1 sessions and also offer immersive group sound journeys to dive deeper into this connection experience. “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced” – David Attenborough Not everyone will have the chance in life to experience whales and in particular their captivating song in nature - that’s why we are dedicated to use modern technologies to bring the fascinating underwater world to them. Follow us to learn more about our other events and mediums we use to reconnect people with whales 🤍🐋 #wearetohora #inspiredbywhales #connectionisconservation #whales #tech4wildlife @wildlabsnet".
Our #Tech4Wildlife project in BC uses a combination of high-definition video, acoustic imaging sonar, and acoustic recorder from a deep-sea cabled video-observatory to unravel the resting and foraging strategies at depth of sub-adult northern elephant seals 🦭🐟💤 @WILDLABSNET pic.twitter.com/FecZKH6kFW
— Dr. Heloise Frouin-Mouy (@FrouinMouy) August 7, 2024
Using acoustic telemetry to monitor the movements of the cryptic platypus. #hardworkbutworthit #Tech4Wildlife #conservationtech pic.twitter.com/zDPfGGBRnO
— Platypus Conservation Initiative (@Platypus_CI) August 7, 2024
New research shows how recording the unique acoustic signals of bats while driving long distances can map populations on an enormous scale 🦇
— WCS Canada (@WCS_Canada) August 7, 2024
This quick, effective & inexpensive method could be used to understand population trends over time #Tech4Wildlife pic.twitter.com/hHaO27n89Q
Life imitates Art. With this Sistine Chapel’s pose our team member @Tincho_bulen is deploying a @WildlifeAcoust SM Mini recorded for the search of the lost Calilegua’s Marsupial Frog#Tech4Wildlife @WILDLABSNET pic.twitter.com/1yzsDGJKZd
— CANOA Anfibios (@CanoaAnfibios) August 8, 2024
Own reflection. #Tech4Wildlife Installing a #HydroMoth @OpenAcoustics for our project "Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring (UPAM) for threatened Andean water frogs" as part of @WILDLABSNET 2024 Awards 👇 pic.twitter.com/hCNRuwgKTO
— CANOA Anfibios (@CanoaAnfibios) August 8, 2024
In the project #ECOSUMA we @IIM_CSIC tracked a local population of common #octopus using #acoustictelemetry techniques to understand its movement and behaviour ecology inside National Park waters in NW Spain#Tech4Wildlife @WILDLABSNET pic.twitter.com/Z4hkmrkuaY
— O Fanequeiro (@Fanequeiro) August 8, 2024
32 likes, 1 comments - alejod._ on August 3, 2024: "Las vocalizaciones de los monos aulladores se pueden escuchar a 5km ya que pueden emitir sonidos hasta de 128dB. Exploraciones en #bioacustica. Trabajo de campo e investigación parte del doctorado DAC. #howlermonkey @reservamanakai #Tech4Wildlife @WILDLABSNET @sonorousobjects.nyc".
2023
Showing our Tech in Action for Day 1 of @WILDLABSNET's #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge! 🐦🧑💻🌎 Get ready for this week-long feature bringing together users and makers of #conservationtech worldwide celebrating innovations and ideas, successes, and the incredible #wildlife and… pic.twitter.com/80PnC2Dyp5
— Rainforest Connection (@RainforestCx) July 25, 2023
2022
It's @WILDLABSNET #tech4wildlife photo week...
— Arik Kershenbaum #WhyAnimalsTalk (@arikkershenbaum) September 13, 2022
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Here's why we've got to use passive acoustics (from @WildlifeAcoust and @WildCRU_Ox) to monitor critically endangered cao vit gibbons. It's just too difficult to make your way through their habitat!@FaunaFloraInt @olliewearn pic.twitter.com/abXjwb9ckN
@WILDLABSNET The lasts weeks we were workig at #NBLab. My team worked on exploring the biodiversity of the amazon landscape with camera traps, bioacoustics, spatial ecology, and barcoding. Service learning for wildlife conservation. #Tech4Wildlife pic.twitter.com/IG3vaQeaYV
— Taty Lopez (@TatySLopez) September 12, 2022
2021
All my work involves #Tech4Wildlife, but this is hands-down my favorite picture. My biological #drone and #uav, who carries custom #bioacoustics and video equipment as she flies through swarms of #bats so we can better understand echolocation pic.twitter.com/pPUjOWoPAC
— Laura N. Kloepper, Ph.D (@ProfLKloepper) February 24, 2021
Interested in acoustic monitoring of wildlife&soundscapes, terrestrial/aquatic? Take this SURVEY to help plan the #opensource acoustic monitoring tech of the future! #bioacoustics #ecoacoustics #tech4wildlife #techforgood https://t.co/UBdwER97CJ Please RT! @AudioMoth @WILDLABSNET pic.twitter.com/QknHPyjH1d
— Jose Lahoz-Monfort (@jj_lahoz) February 25, 2021
The models use acoustic features from the calls (like those outlined below) for training. Ruffed lemur roar-shriek chorus spectrogram below - these are what we're searching for amidst the other rainforest noise! #tech4wildlife pic.twitter.com/lSJ3s0aGUo
— Carly Batist, Ph.D. (@Carly_Batist) February 24, 2021
2020
For @WILDLABSNET & #tech4wildlife: a drone equipped with a hydrophone and another drone with a camera for studying the acoustic behavior of gray whales in Baja California Sur, Mexico.https://t.co/gICgTipaQV https://t.co/DQQRJcgSwq pic.twitter.com/HZtd4Ior0I
— Dr. Heloise Frouin-Mouy (@FrouinMouy) March 2, 2020
We used a combination of bioacoustics and camera traps to monitor the mammal community in the #leuser forest in Sumatra, luckily the inhabitants were willing to help us out by checking our equipment! #Tech4Wildlife @WILDLABSNET @AHKorstjens @wsxportal pic.twitter.com/YiXdmjiEL9
— Helen Slater (@hells_bells91) February 27, 2020
2018
We're looking forward to getting back out in the field with our #Tech4Wildlife to survey for #bat activity using @WildlifeAcoust detectors ?& iPads this summer @WILDLABSNET pic.twitter.com/gaSOn0kKEQ
— FPCR (@FPCRltd) February 28, 2018
Testing #Tech4Wildlife to map soundscapes and impacts of land use intensity on biodiversity in semi-arid areas of Kenya @WILDLABSNET @AudioMoth @OpenAcoustics pic.twitter.com/y6sKZcTN0e
— sarah johnson (@Sa_rahJohnson) March 1, 2018
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