Bouvet's Sonification of Chemical Sounds

Each species produces its own signature chemical blend. Bouvet and g o mimic those molecular mixtures by taking the individual chemical sounds and mixing them together on a sound board, using different volumes to represent the concentrations of compounds in each species. Then the experiment bouvet exposed ants to the actual chemicals, either individually or in mixtures, and recorded how thoroughly the preditors were repulsed by each. And he found that the molecules and mixtures that were most annoying to ants were the same ones that, when sonified, caused the volunteers to retreat.