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Wildlife Acoustics has been proposed for deletion, as "not notable" I posted comments to apparently the wrong place (talk) so am adding them here. I believe that the Wildlife Acoustics entry is notable, has publicly verifiable information and should remain a separate entry. This company's products are in use worldwide in wildlife bio-acoustic studies and surveys. I suspect that when the bio-acoustic and bat detector Wiki entries are updated & improved, then the significance of Wildlife Acoustics's contribution to state of the art technologies for bird and bat surveys will be more apparent. I am familiar with some non-industry sources, such as bat research and professional meeting presentation that have had discussions and evaluations of the products and technologies that are being developed by this outfit, including coverage in at least 3 formal presentations at the
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and if you Google for "Song Sleuth" you will find other references to the company's first product. The company is no longer in the consumer market and the content of this page is more appropriate to a more specialized audience in the bioacoustics research field, I hope more will chime in on its
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