world day of interconnectedness
World Wide Celebration of Interconnectedness on 9 September 2009
The purpose of this group is to organise a world wide interconnectedness event on 9 September 2009. Our vision is that on this remarkable day, in every country at 9 AM in every time zone (starting in Australia), all people who are aware of interconnectedness and who are committed to translate that awareness into action will practice interconnectedness as ...learn more
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Created: Jul 06, 2008
Updated: Sep 21, 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.
