The sounds of nature can be incredibly soothing — just think of those zen meditation tracks filled with chirping birds amid the gentle babbling of a brook in the forest. However, not all of nature’s ...
When sensory ecologist Megan Gall joined the faculty at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2013, an experiment presented itself. A number of researchers at Vassar were studying browsing ...
Damien Pollard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Eventually, he abandoned the music business and Hollywood, where he had worked on the score for the film Apocalypse Now, to collect natural “soundscapes”, the pure, rich sounds of untouched ecosystems ...
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1977), pp. 291-302 (12 pages) 1. Attenuation of white noise and pure tones from 350 Hz to 10 kHz was measured at three secondary forest sites in ...
How do you play a built-in trumpet? When a friend asked, “Do elephants make that trumpeting sound through their nose or mouth?” that prompted us to take a deeper look at how animals make some of their ...
During EA’s Gamescom 2017 press conference, it announced a new platformer named Fe. In this platformer from Zoink Games, players control a cub that learns to communicate with the forest, use its ...
From elephants to fennec foxes, discover 10 animals with huge ears and their fascinating adaptations for hearing and survival.
The first grainy film clip shows a black bear exploding out of the trail camera’s frame. In another, a mule deer stops munching wildflowers, backs away and takes off in the opposite direction. In a ...
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