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A team of scientists is studying the sound of the forest in Ecuador to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) could follow animal life in recovering environments. 

一组科学家正在研究厄瓜多尔森林的声音，以了解人工智能 (AI) 如何在恢复环境中追踪动物的生命。 

When scientists want to measure new forest growth, they can study large areas of land with tools like satellites and lidar. 

当科学家想要测量新的森林生长情况时，他们可以使用卫星和激光雷达等工具研究大片土地。 

But understanding how fast and in what amount wildlife is returning to an area is more difficult. Sometimes it requires an expert to listen through sound recordings and pick out animal calls. 

但了解野生动物返回某个地区的速度和数量则更加困难。有时需要专家聆听录音并辨别动物的叫声。 

Jorg Muller is a field expert on birds at the University of Wurzburg Biocenter in Germany. He wondered if there was a different way. 

约格·穆勒 (Jorg Muller) 是德国维尔茨堡大学生物中心的鸟类领域专家。他想知道是否还有其他方法。 

Muller told the French news agency AFP: "I saw the gap that we need, particularly in the tropics, better methods to quantify the huge diversity... to improve conservation actions.” 

穆勒告诉法国新闻社法新社：“我看到了我们需要的差距，特别是在热带地区，需要更好的方法来量化巨大的多样性......以改善保护行动。” 

So, he turned to bioacoustics, which uses sound to learn more about animal life and the environments in which they live. 

因此，他转向生物声学，利用声音来更多地了解动物的生命及其生活环境。 

The tool has been used by scientists for some time. But more recently, researchers are using it with computer learning to study large amounts of data more quickly. 

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