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Boyce Rensberger.
Quill, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Helene)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
2008-09-03T14:43:55Z
2008-09-03T14:43:55Z
2007
2007
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42149
228415448
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44).
Typically, if scientists want to study animals in the wild they rely on field observations by eye. If they want to track those species to know where they are, where they are going, and how they behave, then researchers may capture and tag them. These methods, however, are difficult if not impossible for rare and hard-to-see species like whales in the ocean, elephants under a forest canopy, or birds at night. Sound gives scientists a new way of knowing what is swimming, roaming, and flying where. And some scientists are using these sounds for conservation, to identify the habitats animals need to survive and to protect the animals from human activity. Of course, as with any new science, there are unanswered questions. The uncertainties are especially profound in the ocean, where researchers know little about how marine creatures hear. Scientists are still searching for answers, but now they have a new way to find them.
by Elizabeth H. Quill.
S.M. in Science Writing
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Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Eavesdroppers : how scientists are learning to listen in on the animal kingdom : four stories on wildlife and sound
Four stories on wildlife and sound
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