How We Use Sound to Help Protect Elephants from Poaching

The Elephant Listening Project has created maps for the first time showing where the elephants are within the forest, and where the poachers are finding them.

4 Ways Tech Is Helping Protect Elephants From Poachers

Lately, they're using passive acoustic monitoring, or PAM, for forest elephants in central Africa. PAM is a system of constantly recording audio ...

Can sound help save a dwindling elephant population? Scientists ...

Researchers use the elephant call data to build more accurate and frequent population estimates, track their movements, provide better security.

Elephant Listening Project - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Elephants use low frequency sounds to communicate. These sounds are mostly below the range of human hearing but we feel them as “pulsations” in the air. In ...

An anti-poaching technology for elephants that is always listening

Over the summer of 2018, the WIPER prototype passed Phase I testing on an elephant at the San Diego Zoo. There were no gun shots, but the team ...

Saving African Forest Elephants Using Sound - Facebook

For more than two decades the Cornell Lab's Elephant Listening Project has helped understand and conserve the critically endangered African ...

Listen Up! Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Help Forest ...

PAM conducted on a landscape level can directly enhance the protection of the national park not only through a better understanding of how ...

Ears on the Forest - Elephant Listening Project

We have studied the effects of oil exploration on elephant behavior, characterized seasonal use at a multitude of forest clearings, and probed the nocturnal ...

Listen to the rainforest chorus that's helping scientists protect African ...

The person responsible for the devices is scientist Peter Wrege, director of the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University in New York.

Meet the Elephant Listening Project: Saving African Forest ...

We collect the SD cards with the sound recordings on, and then we scan those sound recordings for the sounds of the elephants using automated ...

Elephant communication

In our first experiment, audio playbacks of bee sounds induced elephants to retreat and elicited more head-shaking and dusting, reactive behaviors that may ...

Listening to Africa's elephants - Nature

These are the places that poachers will look for them and where protection needs to be increased. Again, acoustics could be one way to approach ...

Acoustics for Human-Wildlife Conflict Prevention, Anti-poaching, and ...

With them we are working on a sound-based elephant monitoring and early warning system that may be used to reduce human-elephant conflicts (see also the work of ...

Six Ways Sound Data is Changing Conservation - Cool Green Science

The world is a noisy place — and scientists can use that sound to help protect wildlife and wild places. Acoustic recorders are like audible ...

Can We Protect Elephants by Eavesdropping on Their Underground ...

The shockwaves elephants send through the earth via vocalizations and panic running could one day alert local authorities when poachers are ...

Drones: Protecting and Serving Elephants in Danger - Insights - DJI

The drones are used in a similar way to how dogs herd sheep. The noise made by the drone sounds like a swarm of bees to the elephants and will ...

Earthquake-Monitoring Tech May Help Save Elephants

In addition to elephants, animals such as whales and hippopotamuses can use infrasound to communicate. FYI: Ultrasound describes sound waves ...

What the herd heard: UC team studies African elephants

“Some research has been done on elephant communication and we know that elephants make certain kinds of sounds and some of these sounds are ...

Artificial Intelligence In Wildlife Conservation - AI World School

Wrege and his team used sound to track and monitor elephant and poacher activities. They used custom audio recorders to collect jungle sounds and then converted ...

A Sound of Trumpets | Columbia Magazine

The logic was simple: African states would use the money to fund elephant conservation ... we're looking for with poaching is the year of the elephant's death.” A ...