
A healthy reef has a complex 'crackling, campfire-like' sound because of all the creatures living on and in it. - Relaxnews
JAKARTA (Reuters): When a team of scientists listened to an audio clip recorded underwater off islands in central Indonesia, they heard what sounded like a campfire.
Instead, it was a coral reef, teeming with life, according to a study scientists from British and Indonesian universities published last month, in which they used hundreds of such audio clips to train a computer programme to monitor the health of a coral reef by listening to it.
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