For many, understanding and talking to animals it's just a movie thing, but it's not like that. Starting with the fact that communication between people and their pets is possible and very common, although it is quite incomplete and uncertain. However, this teacher went further and decided to study and create new technologies to talk to the animals.
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British Columbia professor Karen Bakker, who is also director of the UBC Institute for Resources and Envioronment, recently released a book that compiles some of her new experiments. It is the work “The Sounds of Life”, in which Bakker shares a little about the latest and most modern technology for understanding animals and plants.
In this case, the teacher has dedicated herself to installing digital listening posts in the forests to systematically capture the sounds of the animals and analyze them. Here, the idea is to identify patterns in the sounds made by animals in order to understand what they are trying to communicate.
Furthermore, a fact that draws attention is that Bakker and her team are seeking to better listen to different types of animals. For example, small microphones have been installed inside bee hives to try to find a signal pattern. For this interpretation, the team relies on the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Although this is a recent and highly complex study, the team has already managed to draw some very interesting conclusions and achievements. For example, professor Karen Bakker tells in her book that, using digital listening posts, it was possible to detect infrasound signals that elephants emit.
These are sounds below the human hearing capacity and that follow certain standards for certain situations. In this way, scientists realized that elephants can emit specific sounds for some situations, such as for bees in sight or for a possible encounter with humans.