If we listen closely, a bird’s call reflects what humans have done to its landscape, and a forest soundscape tells us about habitat health. Listen to the third episode of Wild Frequencies to learn how scientists use bioacoustics to understand animals in a landscape altered by humans.

Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India, where wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.

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For show notes, visit our website.

Guests:
TR Shankar Raman, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation
Divya Mudappa, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation
Vijay Ramesh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Priyanka Hariharan, ecologist, University of Florida
K.S. Gopi Sundar, conservation biologist

Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli
Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath
Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar
Recordings from Valparai by Vijay Ramesh at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Project Dhvani, Meghana Srivathsa, Akshay Anand, Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa. Recordings of sarus crane calls by Suhridam Roy.

Can we figure out animal behaviour by listening to the sounds they produce? In this episode, you’ll hear from scientists who listen closely to wildlife ranging from large mammals to insects.

Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India in which wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.

Follow Everything Environment by Mongabay India for more episodes.

For show notes, visit our website.

Guests:
Seema Lokhandwala, Elephant Acoustic Project
Manjari Jain, Associate Professor, Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER, Mohali)

Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli
Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath
Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar
Recordings of Asian elephants by Elephant Acoustics Project, African savannah elephants by Elephantvoices.org, and cricket by Manjari Jain

Most wild animals are not easy to spot. They are often hidden, camouflaged, or just not around when you are.

But instead of trying to ‘see’ them, what if we try and ‘listen’ to them? After all, animals communicate. For some researchers, all this talking and chattering is gold. They use sounds to find animals that are difficult to observe and also to count them!

Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India, where wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.

Follow Everything Environment by Mongabay India for more episodes.

For show notes, visit our website.

Guests:
Rohit Chakravarty, Nature Conservation Foundation
Isha Bopardikar, IISER Tirupati
Bilal Habib, Wildlife Institute of India

Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli; Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath; Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar; Sound clips by Rohit Chakravarty (NCF), Isha Bopardikar (IISER Tirupati), and Bilal Habib (WII)