How hard can insects bite? Having a strong chewing apparatus makes it easier to crush harder food and to succeed in fights with enemies. Biologists at the University of Bonn now present a mobile system (forceX) for measuring ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2022
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The biggest library of bat sounds has been compiled to identify bats from their calls in Mexico - a country which harbours many of the Earth's species and has one of the highest rates of extinction and habitat loss.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2016
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Researchers have developed a new deep learning AI tool that generates lifelike bird songs to train bird identification tools, helping ecologists to monitor rare species in the wild. The findings are presented in Methods in ...
Ecology
Nov 15, 2023
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A blueprint for measuring calcium carbonate on the ocean floor could help marine scientists monitor coral reef health around the globe.
Ecology
Jun 15, 2022
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Science fiction came up with machine-intelligent hunter drones and they have now become science fact with a new HKU-codeveloped autonomous 'hunter drone' that seeks out targets at night using a scanning laser.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 23, 2020
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New research demonstrates for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to train computers to recognize individual birds, a task humans are unable to do. The research is published in the British Ecological ...
Ecology
Jul 27, 2020
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A new project, jointly led by the University of Stirling and Dutch start-up Hack the Planet, has for the first time developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered wildlife camera that could hugely benefit conservation ...
Ecology
Jan 9, 2023
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By measuring the body length, width and height of free-living southern right whales photographed by drones, researchers were able to develop a model that accurately calculated the body volume and mass of the whales.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2019
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Most aquatic species sense sound via particle motion, yet few studies on underwater acoustic ecology have included measurements of particle motion.
General Physics
Mar 1, 2016
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Researchers at UEA and the Earlham Institute (EI) have developed a new method to rapidly identify the sources of bee pollen to understand which flowers are important for bees.
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2019
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