Bioacoustics
Subject in Life Sciences
Bioacoustics has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jeffrey T. ReedComputational linguist, founder of Grizzly Systems and the Cry Wolf Project
Reed argues that urbanization is eroding human vocabulary for nature, and a 'digital wild' of recordings can reconnect people to it.
“Human language across the globe is losing its words and grammar for nature”
TED Radio Hour: Can curiosity save the wild? (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 49:25
Reed says the Yellowstone recorders captured over 200,000 hours of audio, far more than a person could listen to.
“we've recorded over 200,000 hours, which would take me roughly 50 years to listen to”
TED Radio Hour: Can curiosity save the wild? (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 31:04
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
Can curiosity save the wild?TED Radio Hour · Oct 30, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with conservationist Maya Higa about livestreamed wildlife sanctuaries and computational linguist Jeffrey Reed about using AI to study Yellowstone wolf howls.