How to learn to listen to animals?

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Animals speak, let's know how to listen to them by Nicolas Mathevon © Humensciences

By: Simon Rozé Follow

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The crocodile cries, the owl hoots, the chickadee ... animals make all kinds of noises, but do they talk to each other?

What would their discussions then be?

From the Amazon jungle to the Arctic sea ice, a sound journey to learn to listen to animals ...

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Nature is full of sounds, a flowing stream, the wind in the trees and of course the animals, often invisible to our eyes.

It is therefore through our ears that they signal themselves to us even if, of course, this is not their goal.

What is the meaning, precisely, of these vocalizations, of these grunts, these clicks, these rubbing?

How do animals produce them?

Why are they doing it?

This is the subject of study of bioacousticians and we will spend the next hour in the company of one of them ...

Nicolas 

Mathevon

, biologist and specialist in animal behavior, for the book 

Animals speak, let us know how to listen to them 

published by Humensciences.   

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