September 21, 2023

Found via Google Alerts: WildFoods4Wildlife

Found via Google Alerts: Wildfoods4Wildlife.com. From the Getting Started page: “The purpose of this website is to assist permitted wildlife rehabilitators to acquire wild plant foods to feed to their wildlife patients by linking up with volunteer plant foragers. We hope to help beginner plant enthusiasts and foragers collect appropriate fruits, seeds, greens and nuts that are eaten by the Virginia wildlife that are commonly treated in rehabilitation.”

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September 16, 2023

Clemson News: Clemson students’ deployment of novel camera alert system, TrailGuard AI, featured in BioScience, promotes coexistence of tigers, humans

Clemson News: Clemson students’ deployment of novel camera alert system, TrailGuard AI, featured in BioScience, promotes coexistence of tigers, humans. “Last year, the Global Tiger Forum, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and RESOLVE partnered with Clemson University to test conservation technology: TrailGuard AI, a camera-alert system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that remains hidden from poachers while detecting wild tigers and transmits real-time images to the cell phones and computers of concerned entities like park rangers.”

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September 7, 2023

The Conversation: Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you

The Conversation: Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you. “Even Hollywood – which has a long history of using trained monkey or ape ‘actors’ – is shifting to the use of computer-generated imagery to depict primates on screen. Social media must catch up, and recognise that holding exotic animals in human contexts represents a grizzly and exploitative industry – and thus reflects animal abuse.”

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June 13, 2023

Sydney Morning Herald: Google AI put to the test in bid to track threatened cockatoos

Sydney Morning Herald: Google AI put to the test in bid to track threatened cockatoos . “The Australian Acoustics Observatory – or A20, a nationwide network of recorders – and the Queensland University of Technology have partnered with Google Australia to build a system that can process thousands of hours of recordings in minutes, and isolate the calls of specific wildlife.”

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May 31, 2023

North Carolina State University: How Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence Could Help Animals

North Carolina State University: How Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence Could Help Animals. “In a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, two researchers suggest artificial intelligence and the growing body of information online, which they call the ‘internet of animals,’ could empower scientists to make real-time predictions about the future of species amid climate change, diseases and more.”

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May 13, 2023

Colorado State University: New drone application improves tracking for songbird research

Colorado State University: New drone application improves tracking for songbird research. “CSU drone experts have helped develop a way to track songbirds during breeding season in the central and western regions of the Great Basin, an application that shows promise for wildlife biology in general. The university’s Drone Center partnered with researchers at Oregon State University to deploy a new and unobtrusive way to study how birds… respond to environmental change.”

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May 7, 2023

MIT News: Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers

MIT News: Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers. “Since the term ‘soft robotics’ was adopted in 2008, engineers in the field have been building diverse representations of flexible machines useful in exploration, locomotion, rehabilitation, and even space. One source of inspiration: the way animals move in the wild. A team of MIT researchers has taken this a step further, developing SoftZoo, a bio-inspired platform that enables engineers to study soft robot co-design.” I had never heard the term “soft robotics” before, so I used Wiki-Guided Google Search on it and was lead to this article from the Encyclopedia of Robotics. The article gets complicated but there’s plenty there for even a non-technical reader to learn.

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May 5, 2023

Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife

Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife. ” Monitoring changes in how people view the natural world could prove invaluable in gaining support for tackling the biodiversity crisis. Many current metrics that monitor these changes are not published in real-time, often due to a lack of resources…. But now researchers have developed a new tool called the Species Awareness Index (SAI), which can track the real-time rate of change in online biodiversity awareness. The index looks at the monthly change in average daily page views for around 40,000 species across 10 of the most popular Wikipedia languages.”

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March 23, 2023

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project . “”[The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society] has joined forces with the Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) and the British Library’s Wildlife and Environmental Sounds collection to gather examples of the song of the skylark – the bird whose exuberant, melodious singing inspired the composer’s much-loved piece The Lark Ascending.”

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