Bioacoustic-Communication 

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BIOCOM Project Description

Bio-Communication is one of the most controversially discussed subjects in science. Up to date, an animal spoken language with abstract content is rather neglected or rejected in scientific behavioural research. Distinctive "Calls" (alarm, mating, threat, sing..) and "Songs" (courtship, territory,..) are out of question, and yet many behaviours indicate, that animals do "talk" to each other. Despite great efforts to decode/decipher any language related elements, so far no proof succeeded.

Intensive research (observations, recordings, assumptions and strategies, analysis and back analysis, physical and medical examinations) especially on whales (dolphins), birds, bats, insects, just to name a few, brought no breakthrough in the decoding of their words or the key to decipher sentences in vocal/animal communication.

At least, the existence of a real language is questioned., although, Nobel Prize winner K.v. Frisch had discovered, that honeybees communicate by "dance" and even fish can sound and hear acoustically.

In our opinion, the problem is mainly caused by the following elementary errors:

• Sufficient and fully developed recording techniques

• The sequence and coding and syntax of animal languages is similar to human language.

• Human auditory system is able to hear (perceive) these messages.

However, as partially shown by Frisch, the example of the honeybee proofs, that this is not the case and that those assumptions are false.

Communication Elements

Basically any communication from a transmitter to a receiver (and vice versa) consists of the following basic elements

• Physical Information Carrier,	Coding / Decoding / Encryption
  Physical Signal	Compression / Redundancy
  Modulation Type	Syntax Information Structure
  Energy/Intensitiy/Loss/Range	Language / Dialect
  Frequency and Time Range	Semantic Meaning

Own bio-acoustic investigations and recordings have shown, that current methods and devices are of inadequate quality (frequency range, resolution) and generally can not exhibit the details, necessary to draw comprehensive conclusions, to identify the individual elements of the information structure and composition.

Scope of the Project (Target)

This project deals with the development of instrumentation for the recording and decryption of bio-communication (Animal Language) and its related elements. As a prerequisite the nature and source, the physical properties and behavioural circumstances and surroundings must be investigated and resolved. This includes the following stages:

• Basic Research

• Fundamental Experiments

• Feasibility Studies

• Prototype Engineering

• Product Evaluation