# Earth Species Project

> AI foundation models and open-source tools to decode animal communication

Earth Species Project is an open-source non-profit research organization using artificial intelligence to decode non-human communication and bio-logger data. They develop open foundation models like NatureLM-audio along with shared data infrastructure to help scientists detect, classify, and analyze vocal patterns across species.

Website: https://earthspecies.org/

## What it is for

- Analyze and classify large bioacoustic datasets across animal species
- Evaluate machine learning models on animal vocalization and movement benchmarks
- Access and standardize cross-species bioacoustic datasets using alp-data
- Identify behavioral correlations in wildlife communication recordings

## Features

- NatureLM-audio large audio-language foundation model tailored for animal vocalizations
- alp-data open-source Python library providing unified access to 35+ bioacoustic datasets
- Bio-logger Ethogram Benchmark (BEBE) for evaluating ML on sensor and vocalization data
- Public research publications and open datasets released on Hugging Face and GitHub
- Community Discord for researchers working in Animal Language Processing (ALP)

## Pricing

Free and open-source non-profit research

## Details

- Type: Website
- Category: [AI](https://xiry.app/topics/ai.md)
- Open source: yes
- Platforms: Web, Code library
- For: Biologists, bioacoustics researchers, conservation scientists, and machine learning engineers
- Alternative to: Project CETI
- Tags: bioacoustics, wildlife, animal communication, foundation models, machine learning, open source

## Why it was saved

- [@rowancheung, 30 October 2024](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBwsA5HxjLf/): Enables scientists to discover structural patterns in non-human vocalizations and behavior to understand and protect wildlife.

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Updated 3 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/earth-species-project

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