The Sounds of Life
eBook - ePub

The Sounds of Life

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sounds of Life

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780691240978
9780691206288
eBook ISBN
9780691240985
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Sounds of Life
  9. 2. The Singing Ocean
  10. 3. Quiet Thunder
  11. 4. Voice of the Turtle
  12. 5. Reef Lullaby
  13. 6. Plant Polyphonies
  14. 7. Bat Banter
  15. 8. How to Speak Honeybee
  16. 9. The Internet of Earthlings
  17. 10. Listening to the Tree of Life
  18. Acknowledgments and List of Interviewees
  19. Appendix A: How to Start Listening
  20. Appendix B: Further Reading
  21. Appendix C: Brief Overview of Research on Bio- and Ecoacoustics
  22. Notes
  23. References
  24. Index

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