01678nas a2200205   4500008004100000022001400041245008300055210006900138300002000207520105300227653001201280653001701292653002401309653000901333653002601342653001401368653001001382100001901392856006101411       2017                        eng d  a0263-276400aThe Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research: Sensing the Animals' Sounds0 aScience of Listening in Bioacoustics Research Sensing the Animal  a0263276417727053 aBioacoustics is an interdisciplinary field bridging biological and acoustic sciences, which uses sound technologies to record, preserve, and analyse large datasets of animal communications. But it is also a world, made of the meanings created through inter- and intra-species communication. This article empirically explores a variety of bioacoustics research, including interviews with researchers, as part of a broader qualitative study, in order to theorize the expanding sense and sensation of a global biosphere and sonic data. By giving a sustained and detailed account of the science of bioacoustics, particularly how its modes of measurement allow for a new way of understanding what is involved in the de-centred modes of hearing that re-centre acts of listening and, by extension, the nature of the relation between researcher and researched, the article contributes to methodological discussions regarding the longstanding questions of how researchers and scientists are implicated in the knowledge and objects they collectively produce.10aAnimals10abioacoustics10abiological sciences10adata10aemerging technologies10alistening10asound1 aVallee, Mickey  uhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276417727059