Are There Animals That People Have Heard but Not Seen Before?

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Miranda panda and mike monkowski both asked, are there animals that people have heard but not seen before? Question, there probably is. So once i really come to an that are ones that w weave heard for a long time, and took a long time to find. And as a great example here in the deserts of a stranger, something called the night parrot. It's almost like a mythical bird that had been only seen a couple of times by sort of reliable description until we started hearing it. Hear tha bell, that is the sound of a night parrt. If et was tot puttig ot microphones an recording. We're using sa to find the presence of

Insects humming. Birds squawking. Chainsaws buzzing? What does the rainforest sound like? Or the oceans outside of port cities? Is the world getting louder? And what can recording devices detect that our ears – especially mine, Alie’s – can’t? Acoustic Ecologist Dr. Eddie Game of the Nature Conservancy has asked conservation questions over decades of work in 20 countries, and even though his microphone for this interview sucked, his stories and wisdom are a pleasure to hear. Also: is it okay to talk to owls? How much of timber harvesting is legal? And how do communities come together to protect the lands around them? Also: the most elusive and coolest midnight parrot.

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