What can soundscapes tell us about animals and their home landscapes?




Mongabay Newscast show

Summary: Anne Axel of Marshall University is making the case for a new field of bioacoustics research: soundscape phenology, the study of cyclical life events of plants and animals via sound recordings. She keynotes theĀ Ecoacoustics Congress in Australia soon on this topic, and plays a few of the recordings that have informed this research from the forests of Madagascar. Plus we round up the top environmental science news, so if you like what you hear, please subscribe and tell a friend.