Web technology helps keep track of animals

Scientists in Puerto Rico say Web design technology has helped them track the presence of animals in an ecosystem by analyzing their sounds. This new technology helps overcome the challenge of identifying and tracking the variability of thousands of species in tropical ecosystems, much easier than before.

According to UPI, a team of scientists led by Michell Aide and Carlos Corrada-Bravo (University of Puerto Rico) analyzed thousands of automated recordings through observation stations located in the natural environment of species. like: tropical birds, frogs, monkeys, insects in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, so consider how they survived.

A peer-reviewed journal, the researchers said the animal tracking technology incorporates both on-site software and hardware, which can deliver real-time results over the internet.

The hardware used in this research is like an iPod, recording 144 frames per second and sending it in real time to a 25-mile radio station. The recordings will be forwarded to the server in Puerto Rico and the processing time is less than 1 minute.

Corrada-Bravo scientist says that each record is equivalent to that of museum specimens, not only today, but could provide data for research scientists from 20 to 50 years. or so much longer.