Are Animals Using Sound Cues to Communicate?

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There's a hypothesis that fish on the great barrier reef, for instance, use the sound of reefs as a cue to find them in ane. And some ghost hunters, or people who are looking into ghosts, have found that just a low, low rumble from a fan will give us the same eeri feeling when we're scared. We sely see evidence that when you see things like our race get to gridaty thats for col bleaching, climate driven events,. through other forms of degradation, pollution, sediment things iat, they are getting quieter because, yo, same thing you seeng hapving on land.

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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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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