Infrasound radar listens for elephants rumbles

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3048, 2015, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In January 2015 an elephant entered Moragoda village in northern Sri Lanka and killed a father in his vegetable garden. In July, a dairy farmer from the east was killed taking his cow out to graze. Now an ambitious project aims to warn communities when elephants approach by tracking these giants around the country via their rumbling calls. Chamath Keppitiyagama of the University of Colombo is working on a radar system that listens out for the inaudible rumbles of elephants' infrasound, something that was discovered in the 1980s.