Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

Mongabay
Jun 25, 2026, 10:29 pm124 ptsTrending
What does an eagle ray’s menu look like? An artificial intelligence model can now answer that question by listening to sounds of the animal chewing on food. Scientists developed the machine learning algorithm to detect the sound of shells being crushed by predators when they feed on mollusks. According to a…

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