Sound in the animal kingdom, with David George Haskell
Instant Genius
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The Hydrophone and the Ecology of Sound
Sound is a great way of being acted across distances in very turbid habitats. Dropping a hydrophone into a salt marsh or sea grass meadow reveals this hidden world. Sound also tells us something about the productivity of those eco systems. If we're not listening to the world, how can we figure out how to be neighbours and good ken to other species?
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