Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learning

Mongabay
Mar 18, 2025, 9:16 am140 pts
What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed underwater to pick up any sounds, has long helped scientists detect the presence, or absence, of whales in oceans. More often than not, however, the method isn’t that great at estimating the…

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