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Automation of data acquisition and processing is crucial for adaptation and wider uptake of acoustic monitoring. Therefore, an automated data processing workflow concept for red deer call detection and localization was proposed and demonstrated. The unique dataset of red deer calls during the rut in September 2021 was collected with four GPS time-synchronized microphones. Five supervised machine learning algorithms were tested and compared for the detection of red deer rutting calls where the support-vector-machine-based approach demonstrated the best performance of \u221296.46% detection accuracy. For sound source location, a hyperbolic localization approach was applied. 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