
The Sounds of Life
How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
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Narrated by:
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Suzanne Toren
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By:
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Karen Bakker
This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Toren takes you on an amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds
The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.
At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?
The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity’s relationship with nature in the digital age. After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature’s sounds, we will never see walks outdoors in the same way again.
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Critic reviews
A Mind opening understanding of how sound vibrations that we can hear and not hear affects much of our world, both plant and animal. E.g., flowers produce more nectar when bees are buzzing around 🤯. Excellent well written book.
Amazing content, well researched, great audio reading
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Good content, bad sound
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Extremely interesting across many areas of world and animal sounds
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The last hour was pure pain of repetition.
If this is your first encounter with bio-acoustics or animal behavior you will be inspired (except for the last hour or so ;-) ).
A book on the same topic, published only a few weeks before this book is "How to speak Whale". That author has a whole different level of story telling. If you only plan on reading one book on this topic I would recommend opting for the "How to speak Whale".
Interesting but you can skip the last hour
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Poor narrator
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