[Animals] The solo melodies of manatees may protect them from extinction

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Man is often a source of threat to the natural balance in the universe, to the extent of causing the extinction of some of its components, but nature offers its inhabitants opportunities to circumvent this opponent and support its structures of plants and animals, opportunities that need support from human beings to fix what they have corrupted.

 

 

Endangered animals
In the Bocas del Toro region of the Central American islands of Panama, floating aquatic plants join forces on the surface of wet reserves to hide their friends, the manatees swimming inside, which contributed to the survival of these animals away from the eyes of the looters of the treasures of these rich water communities.

In a study conducted by a research team at the University of Technology in the Republic of Panama led by researcher Fernando Merchin - who specializes in acoustic processors for marine animals - with another team at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and published in the Journal of the American Acoustic Society, the importance of these plants was highlighted in the preservation of po[CENSORED]tions. Sheep inside the reserves.

The researchers were also able to identify different vocal patterns using spectral analysis of the individual melodies of the manatees. Through this melody, the animals can exchange their information and then create the language of communication between the members of their group.

For a decade, manatee communities dwindled due to the effects of climate change and water pollution on the one hand, and exposure to extermination when colliding with boats and due to overfishing on the other hand.

 

 

Aquatic plants floating on the surface of wet reserves join hands
Aquatic plants floating on the surface of wet reserves join hands
Seeing through the dark
These causes have increased the likelihood of losing more than 20% of sheep in future generations, according to projections by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

As an inevitable consequence, this diminishment could threaten the entire ecosystem - the interaction between living organisms and their environment - as a whole.

The application of these techniques used in this research provides more data on the estimated number of manatees in the Panama Islands.

“By using sonar to examine the acoustic patterns, we will be able to estimate the number of sheep in the aquarium, so now we can see through the darkness,” says co-author Hector Guzman, marine biologist and ecologist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. floating water.

Also, these techniques will provide some information about the mating seasons within groups and the ways they communicate with each other to make the transmission of offspring successful.

potential survival
To avoid inflicting any additional damage, conservationists have recommended limiting the initial number of manatees, and on that basis laws can be put in place to not harm them, in order to avoid an exaggerated decrease in the number of survivors.

“Sorting and processing 375,000 and eight hundred audio recordings took a lot of effort in a two-year project, and thanks to the cooperation of the interdisciplinary research team, they were able to distinguish the different tunes of individuals in the vicinity of the wet reserves in the Bocas del Toro region,” said lead researcher Fernando Merchin, specialist in the study. in the acoustic treatments of these animals at the Technological University of Panama.

Such research may contribute to revealing the weaknesses of such species, and can recommend the preparation of optimal living conditions to protect them from the dangers of extinction and annihilation. Then estimating the po[CENSORED]tion of manatees inhabiting the regions of Colombia and Mexico as a sample, in addition to revealing their lifestyle, observing the most subtle changes between groups of different regions, in addition to identifying migration patterns.

Ultimately, the team hopes to create a taxonomic map in which the species or age of the animal can be known just by listening to its own tunes

 

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