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An autonomous recording unit (ARU) is a self-contained audio recording device that is deployed in marine or terrestrial environments for bioacoustical monitoring. The unit is used in both marine and terrestrial environments to track the behavior of animals and monitor their ecosystems.
The lyrebird is an Australian species best known for its ability to mimic man-made sounds. National Geographic has recorded these remarkable birds mimicking such unnatural noises as a chainsaw and ...
A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus Menura, and the family Menuridae. [2] They are most notable for their impressive ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment, and the striking beauty of the male bird's huge tail when it is fanned out in courtship display.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong ) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding , songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
A video, taken by Crombie’s friend, shows the precise moment thousands of starlings fleetingly appear as one, a curved, winged form reflected in the water below. A flurry of camera shutter ...
Zoomusicology (/ ˌ z oʊ ə m j uː z ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /) is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals. [1] It is a field of musicology and zoology, and is a type of zoosemiotics.