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  • New Book: ‘Animal Music – Sound and Song in the Natural World’

    New Book: ‘Animal Music – Sound and Song in the Natural World’

    ‘Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World‘ is a wonderful book I recently got. It’s edited by Tobias Fisher and Lara C Cory and features interviews with truly expert and passionate people on this field. Can animals talk?…

  • Field Recording: Okarito kiwi

    Great field report from Tim Prebble about his journey to Okarito, New Zealand to record kiwi sounds. If you know anyone from New Zealand you will have likely heard the colloquial use of the word ‘kiwi’ – the kiwi is our…

  • Loudest Animal Sound

    Loudest Animal Sound

    This minuscule water boatman might be smaller than a drawing pin, but it’s also the loudest animal on the planet. Well, relative to its body size, at least. The male lesser water boatman, aka Micronecta scholtzi, can create mating calls as loud as…