Action of Love
A Coalition of LOVE Sharing Acts of Love
This group space is a place where all people can come to share inspirations on Actions of Love. During these times of Political and Environmental kaos, people who are actively engaged in alternative practices, setting the stepping stones and being the change, can share their visions of hope. This is a place where people can find inspiration in what others ...learn more
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Created: Feb 03, 2008
Updated: Nov 01, 2009
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The Elephant Listening Project (ELP) was founded in 1999 with the primary focus on African forest elephants, a unique species (Roca et al. 2001) which lives in deep equatorial rainforests where sightings are rare and visual censusing is impossible. In the Bioacoustics Research Program of the Laboratory of Ornithology, ELP is creating an acoustic monitoring system which uses elephants’ vocal patterns as indicators of the size and composition of their populations. Elephants make powerful infrasonic calls (below the level of human hearing) which travel long distances, allowing researchers to identify the presence of elephants over large areas without visual sightings. Our current efforts include:
• Using acoustic recordings to identify and locate poaching activity by detecting gunshots in acoustic recordings.
• Determining whether elephants make calls that indicate the age, sex, and hormonal condition of the elephant, as well as the behavioral context in which the call was made.
• Expanding monitoring efforts to incorporate censuses of other vocal or noise-producing species such as birds, primates, insects, and frogs.
