Judith Smit

Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

A Cold War hydrophone network built to track Soviet submarines across entire ocean basins was declassified in 1991, and scientists now use those same undersea microphones to follow individual whales c...

Scientists discover the key ingredients that make birdsong pretty

About Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) — a masterclass | BTO

Boat noise makes humpback whale songs up to 45 percent less likely to be detected

Precise giants: New research reveals how blue whales find food in a vast ocean

Even low-level traffic noise can reduce birdsong's stress-relieving effects

Chorus: Our AI Ecoacoustic Processing Technology Begins Supporting Locally Led Bird Conservation Across Latin America

How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Birdsong and whale song show patterns similar to human language

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to put on the Voyager Golden Record, and among the greetings in 55 languages, the whale song, and the Bach they included t...

The role of conservation bioacoustics in achieving global biodiversity goals - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

The birds and the beeps: Clicks, chirps and calls are boosting conservation efforts

The global biogeography of passerine songs

Why and how birdsong differs across the world—and the eight motifs that tie them together

Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain

ASA/ANSI S3.20-2015 (R2025): Bioacoustical Terminology - ANSI Blog

Mongabay, Scientific American, and Project Multatuli release a documentary on Indonesia’s new capital

This Rainforest Is Becoming Indonesia's New Capital—Scientists Are Listening Closely

Seabed Cables Detect Silent Whales by Reading Pressure Waves, Not Calls

These 5 Research Projects Show How AI Is Revolutionizing Bird Conservation

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Acoustic environment may explain why some bird songs outlast others

Pilot project in San Francisco Bay aims to help ships avoid gray whales

Forest resident birds avoid intensive clearcuts, acoustic monitoring shows

Newly discovered 'thunder' of Atlantic sturgeons inspires awe

Tariffs are Spurring Shipping Noise in the St. Lawrence Seaway - bioGraphic

A ‘symphony’ of wildlife suggests carbon financing is working in Sierra Leone

Bioacoustics: The hidden sound of cities

The Voyager probes carry golden records etched with greetings in 55 languages, whale songs, and a woman's brainwaves recorded while she thought about being in love, and the records are designed to rem...

From caws to code: AI helps decrypt animal communication

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Why do brown bats stop feeding during fireworks? #ASA190

The Ocean You’ve Never Heard

Birds and monkeys in the Amazon share information via ‘internet of the forest’: new research

World Ecoacoustics Congress 2026 | ARDC

The Global Think Tank Using AI to Understand Animal Communication

In Guatemala, new AI technology will be ‘listening’ for illegal deforestation

Brain Prioritizes "Sound Offsets" During Hearing Repair - Neuroscience News

A silent robot shadows sperm whales by listening to their clicks

Foundation models for bioacoustics – A comparative review

Automated detection of stereotyped animal sounds using data augmentation and transfer learning - Scientific Reports

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VCU artist’s planetary sculpture adds blue whales from New Zealand

Plants can sense the sound of rain, new study finds

Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can’t sing at their natural pitch

Studying the world’s largest gathering of forest elephants with sound and field observation