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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…

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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.

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!

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