hydrophone
noun
hy·dro·phone
ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn 
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water
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Although microphones, hydrophones, cameras and drones have been employed to understand and safeguard nonhuman animals, they have also been misused to survey, harm, and experiment on them.
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David Gruber, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Monika Wieland Shields, co-founder and director of the Orca Behavior Institute, is one of a team of researchers who are using a hydrophone array to localize vocalizations to a specific group of whales or even an individual whale.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
The researchers’ underwater signal reader includes a transmitter and hydrophone array, pictured here.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2023
These large wearables, built around an underwater computer, featured hydrophones to detect and record dolphin vocalizations, speakers to play artificial whistles in the water, and a specialized interface that divers could use underwater.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
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David Gruber, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Monika Wieland Shields, co-founder and director of the Orca Behavior Institute, is one of a team of researchers who are using a hydrophone array to localize vocalizations to a specific group of whales or even an individual whale.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
The researchers’ underwater signal reader includes a transmitter and hydrophone array, pictured here.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2023
These large wearables, built around an underwater computer, featured hydrophones to detect and record dolphin vocalizations, speakers to play artificial whistles in the water, and a specialized interface that divers could use underwater.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
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hydrophone
noun
hy·dro·phone
ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water
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