The Elephant Listening Project was founded in 1999 to carry out long-term research on elephant
communication
, with a focus on forest elephants, following zoologist Katy Payne's research into elephant use of infrasound. Developing acoustic
monitoring
technologies in the
birds
.cornell.edu/ccb/?__hstc=129768915.81779c539e9851edffecd8d59c1fb61e.1656488562918.1656488562918.1656488562918.1&__hssc=129768915.2.1656488562918&__hsfp=1504332411">K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell University, the ELP has collected more than one million hours of audio from multiple forest locations in Central Africa, many of them monitored continuously for long periods, in order to inform elephant
conservation
. Some of these acoustic data have been made available as an
database
/">open dataset.