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There is heartening news for bird lovers. Researchers have found that cellular phones can be used to talk with owls in the wild. Scientists feel that networks of cell phones in the wild could help call to and listen for birds & beasts enabling researchers to study faraway wildlife in the natural habitat.

"We\'re in talks to set up such networks in Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea," researcher Dale Joachim, an MIT electrical engineer, told Live Science. "It might be good for ecotourism, to hear the richness of sound there." Currently wild life biologists monitor birds & beasts by repeatedly venturing into the field to call at and listen for response.
In the future, Joachim said, "you could imagine listening to the sounds of birds from remote areas in your office over the Web, instead of music." In the meantime, the state of Maine plans to deploy such cell phones in an annual survey of owls beginning in March 2008.