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Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra

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Cal Academy: The Magic of Science

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Dr. Krause Discovers a Singing Cottonwood Tree

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Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, explains how he recorded audio signals emitting from the trunk of a cottonwood tree while trying to record bat emissions. He decided the song derives from cells dying as a result of sucking in too much air while trying to maintain osmotic pressure.
The Secret Sounds of Beavers and What They're Telling Us

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Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that these animal's may posses a degree of emotional depth by playing a sorrowful call from a male beaver after its entire family was killed by humans.

"The world’s really crying out to us for help," he says of habitat destruction.
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mikelang

Posted: 02.29.12, 02:35 PM

beaver and krause - wow!!!

fdueri

Posted: 04.23.11, 12:12 AM

A singing tree!!! Now I'm really curious and I'll buy the small recorder to to it with my kids!! This presentation incredible. Thank you!!

Step O'Rafferty

Posted: 11.07.09, 06:04 PM

Now I'm really curious, I live in a rainforest that has hundreds of species of trees. I'd love to hear the different sounds that are within the wood of these living, breathing life forms.

LYF

Posted: 10.08.09, 07:23 PM

1 Chronicles 16:33 - Then the trees of the forest will sing, they will sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.

philsalt

Posted: 10.08.09, 08:21 AM

We live mainly through what we see and have lost the intelligence to intuit sound. This presentation absolutely incredible. Gets you thinking in a totally different way. Wow who thought tree sing.