Wildlife
The impressive acoustics of the great grey owl
Using their remarkable sense of hearing, great grey owls can pinpoint prey deep beneath the snow, picking up sounds as low as -14 decibels from 50 metres away
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- 2 minutes
Wildlife
Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world
Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening?
- 3792 words
- 16 minutes
Wildlife
A library full of sound: How a new collection of underwater sounds will help protect marine life
The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUB) will catalogue sounds from whales to fish (glub?) to boat noise
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- 4 minutes