Passive acoustic monitoring uses unattended microphones or hydrophones to record wildlife sounds, helping researchers track species presence, activity and change across habitats with less continuous field observation.
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A three-month acoustic monitoring project mapped possible predator risk from chital alarm calls, but its developers did not establish whether the warnings reduced human–tiger encounters.
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A 158-day trial near Farewell Spit recorded pilot whale vocalisations, including on the morning of a mass stranding. The project says more monitoring is needed before the system can be used to anticipate strandings.
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A national acoustic survey recorded millions of bat calls and added distribution information for several rare and threatened species. The data provide a monitoring baseline, not evidence of population recovery.
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