Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, in his book The Third Ear,

In a paper in 1977 on birdsong, Peter Marler and Kenneth Marten suggested the possibility that creatures vocalize in some (yet to be understood) relationship to one another.

To my mind, nothing heals the spirit and body more completely than the incantations of biophonies.

Perception Space—The Final Frontier,” by Lars Chittka and Axel Brockmann, PLoS Biology 3 (2005), no.

Part of the discovery of wild soundscapes is discovering what specific types of habitats resonate with you.

Any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself. —Gregory Bateson

My soul turns into a tree, And an animal, and a cloud bank. Then changed and odd it comes home And asks me questions. What should I reply? —Hermann Hesse, “Sometimes”

Roger and Katy Payne, were the first marine examples most people had ever heard.1 The

In another publication, Jakob von Uexküll, a behavioral physiologist of the early twentieth century, referred to the notion of sensory niches in general.