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Sound can be a useful tool for scientists monitoring wildlife populations. But what if you're trying to monitor species in a raging river? A new tool helps cut through all of the noise.
Google Search can do many wondrous things: set up a reminder item, imitate a metronome, show (reasonably) accurate weather predictions...or play animal sounds. That's right, the newest feature to come ...
Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. Squirrels, common birds, and the occasional raccoon or opossum are about ...
Google knows a lot of stuff: What time the Super Bowl is, what the weather’s like outside, and who Martin Van Buren’s vice president was. Now it knows what sound the dog makes, too. A new update ...
Some animals make the strangest, most unexpected sounds that will leave you speechless. From deep-sea creatures with eerie calls to land animals that sound like screaming humans, nature’s soundscape ...
ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...
Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...
Visitors can hear Björk's immersive, otherworldly soundscape, Nature Manifesto, over the next few weeks as they climb the long, glass escalator that hugs the side of Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...