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Want to tune into some live whalesong?
Well, the new LIDO (Listening to the Deep Ocean Environment) site offers a live feed to 10 hydrophones in European waters, and one in Canada. And as well as enabling us to listen as a whale whistles in Sicily, the network’s aim is to “record and archive long-term subsea noise so that researchers can study the effects of human activity on whales and dolphins” – the project hopes to use this technology to enable better understanding of the effects of noise polution on marine life:
Hydrophones can pick up sounds from baleen whales hundreds of kilometres away, so installations in different places could be used to triangulate an animal’s position and track its course. It should therefore be possible to determine if animals change course in response to bursts of noise, or alter their preferred routes because of new sources of noise like shipping routes or harbours.
Lest we forget: [Whales and] Dolphins are Awesome!
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