Bird-watching—and, necessarily, listening—has exploded in popularity in recent years. But put your ears a little closer to the ground, and you might hear a quieter but just as potent kind of song ...
Explore "The Sound of the Vegetable Patch at Dawn Dusk," where the serenity of nature is captured in captivating audio. As the first light of dawn breaks and merges into the tranquility of dusk, ...
The bat—a greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus)—was equipped with a high-tech tag recording its behavior. “There was this crazy noise and movement and a lot of echolocation, and I thought, ‘I’ve ...
For the Climate Forward live event, we gathered recordings of a melting glacier, the Amazon jungle and the underwater Arctic, ...
When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...
A couple thought they could hear an animal inside their house at night and after they investigated the eerie noise, they realized their mistake when it was too late. Instagram user Denise Deucher ...
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 ...
Can you differentiate the cry of an Antarctic Weddell seal from the song of an emperor penguin? How about the bellows of a howler monkey from a warthog’s rumbling roar? The animal kingdom is filled ...
The next time you're out in nature, stop, close your eyes, and listen. That’s what Bernie Krause would like us all to do, before it’s too late to hear the full symphony of the natural world. Founder ...