Connect with us

People & Blogs

AI may one day help us eavesdrop on some turtle talk #TEDTalks

What if we could hear nature’s ultrasonic communication — and talk back? From a bat’s shrill speech to a peacock’s infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises that are far outside humanity’s range of hearing, demonstrating how artificial intelligence has translated the incredible complexity of…

Published

on

What if we could hear nature’s ultrasonic communication — and talk back? From a bat’s shrill speech to a peacock’s infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises that are far outside humanity’s range of hearing, demonstrating how artificial intelligence has translated the incredible complexity of nature’s soundtrack. She asks us to consider the moral weight of such transformative technology and explores the futuristic opportunities presented for conservation, interspecies communication and more.

Continue Reading
Advertisement
16 Comments

16 Comments

  1. @irfanazameer6436

    August 27, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    Okay i thought this wasn’t that true and giggled as soon as I saw the cap in notification 😂

  2. @DucLeLe-b1m

    August 27, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    not the content i searched for, but the content i needed 💖😘

  3. @C-130-Hercules

    August 27, 2025 at 12:56 pm

    🏌🏻‍♂️

    ⚪️

    🐳 😮

    IS ANYONE HERE A MARINE BIOLOGIST??

  4. @RamseyRimkeit

    August 27, 2025 at 3:44 pm

    Now study the screams coming from slaughter houses and what they’re communicating?

    Don’t really need AI for that but we’d rather ignore it.

    • @westrim

      August 27, 2025 at 11:51 pm

      Animals get slaughtered as they enter the slaughterhouse. That’s kind of the point. There’s not much time between arrival and lights out.

  5. @KrishnaChandel-l8r

    August 27, 2025 at 4:22 pm

    Day one : AI protects 😅
    One day : Who knows 😢

  6. @LenaLens143

    August 27, 2025 at 4:35 pm

    ♡

  7. @ereman6

    August 27, 2025 at 8:26 pm

    We don’t miss it because we don’t believe it exists, we miss it because we can’t perceive it. Two entirely different things.

    • @StygianNightmare

      August 28, 2025 at 2:50 am

      Yeah i dont like this concept that we are ALL that self centered. Can you really blame anyone for not knowing something exists if they lack the sensory organs to detect infrared light or frequencies so loud or so low that we literally couldn’t hear it if we wanted to?

    • @PrettyWittyMe

      August 29, 2025 at 5:16 pm

      Same difference. If you can’t perceive it, that’s because you don’t believe it exists.

    • @Gracez00000

      August 29, 2025 at 11:57 pm

      Yeah, but most of the scientific world believed for a very long time only a few speices of earth communciated in any way like humans. It was a stretch to say even birds communicated in a sophisticated way, as to sterotypically degrading a left-wing, young adult’s progressive ideals. That’s probably what she’s refering to; not just an individual failure, but the greater angust that was against animal communication at all.

  8. @cyro420

    August 27, 2025 at 9:36 pm

    I too follow the call of the cooter # nature is crazy

  9. @Jesse-gr2xo

    August 27, 2025 at 11:34 pm

    That’s a good reason to have $ wasting, corporate-bloating, potentially harmful AI. All we need is sensitive sound equipment to pick up sounds we can’t hear. And this woman is so pretentious. We already know about the individual whale songs and how they are passed down to generations. We did that without ai.

  10. @atamani725

    August 28, 2025 at 12:00 am

    if science can record animal sounds like this, then science can also record sounds of ‘fetus’ in the womb…esp their cries when being aborted in their mums wombs…

    • @PrettyWittyMe

      August 29, 2025 at 5:18 pm

      Way to kill the beauty of this video. Exactly what we all needed to hear in this moment. Thank you.😑

  11. @glensolomon

    August 28, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    Cannot perceive, does not exist. Then there’s progenitors of pseudoscience that parade and trumpet a spectacular tune convinced they’re popularizing actual science then get weird when confronted directly with conflicting evidence in their own discipline, the science that is, by design, overlooked and rightfully so. The weird part is that conflicting evidence based on their own method the originator clings to for existential purposes and to those persons: Figure it out!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

People & Blogs

Instead of asking why they stay, ask how we can help #TEDTalks

Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” — that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break the silence.

Published

on

Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” — that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break the silence.

Continue Reading

People & Blogs

The Art of Disagreeing with Dignity | Tami Pyfer | TED

Tami Pyfer has five kids who belong to five different political parties, and sometimes family conversations get heated. Drawing on her work as a former policy advisor to the governor of Utah, she wanted to find a healthier way for people to talk about politics without contempt. The result is the Dignity Index: an eight-point…

Published

on

Tami Pyfer has five kids who belong to five different political parties, and sometimes family conversations get heated. Drawing on her work as a former policy advisor to the governor of Utah, she wanted to find a healthier way for people to talk about politics without contempt. The result is the Dignity Index: an eight-point scale that measures the language we use to disagree, aiming to ease political divisions. What score do you think your last conversation would get? (Recorded at TED Democracy Philadelphia on June 13, 2026)

Join us in person at a TED conference:
Become a TED Member to support our mission:
Subscribe to a TED newsletter:

Follow TED!
Instagram:
LinkedIn:
TikTok:
Facebook:
X:

The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less) — plus originals, podcasts and exclusive content. Look for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design as well as science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit for our entire library, transcripts, translations and personalized recommendations.

Watch more:

TED videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with the TED Talks Usage Policy: . For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), submit a request at

#TED #TEDTalks #Communication

Continue Reading

People & Blogs

How to Make Parenting Less Lonely | Stacey McLachlan | TED

When parents first have kids, some risk entering “the loneliest decade,” where they fall out of touch with friends. Writer Stacey McLachlan decided to do something different when she had her daughter, refusing to let her social life slip away. In this witty talk, she shares her solution — and why it matters for all…

Published

on

When parents first have kids, some risk entering “the loneliest decade,” where they fall out of touch with friends. Writer Stacey McLachlan decided to do something different when she had her daughter, refusing to let her social life slip away. In this witty talk, she shares her solution — and why it matters for all of us. (Recorded at TEDxVancouver on March 8, 2026)

Join us in person at a TED conference:
Become a TED Member to support our mission:
Subscribe to a TED newsletter:

Follow TED!
Instagram:
LinkedIn:
TikTok:
Facebook:
X:

The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less) — plus originals, podcasts and exclusive content. Look for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design as well as science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit for our entire library, transcripts, translations and personalized recommendations.

Watch more:

TED videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with the TED Talks Usage Policy: . For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), submit a request at

#TED #TEDTalks #Parenting

Continue Reading

Trending