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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Animals sometimes make noises that would be impossible to place without context. In this episode: three types of animal vocalizations—described by the people who recorded them.
Ashley Ahearn: Journalist and producer of Grouse, from Birdnote and Boise State Public Radio
Joel Balsam: Journalist and producer of the upcoming podcast Parallel Lives. Joel co-created a photo essay for ESPN about the “pororoca”, an Amazonian wave chased each year by surfers.
Kevin Coffey, Ph.D.: Co-creator of DeepSqueak and researcher at VA Puget Sound and the University of Washington. Kevin co-authored the paper DeepSqueak: a deep learning-based system for detection and analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations in Nature’s Neuropsychopharmacology journal.
Also heard: calls of the Indies Short Tailed Cricket (Anurogryllus celerinictus), which may be the perpetrator of the so-called “sonic attacks” recently reported in Cuba. Sound sent in by HBM listener Isaul in Puerto Rico.
Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: The Black Spot
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0:00.0 | From the computer-generated transcripts of Crow calls, this, you see her be monsters. |
0:15.0 | 2021, March 11th, it's about 10 pm, I've gotten in front of me here, I've got my most |
0:27.2 | treasured possession from about the year 1993. It's actually quite possibly the oldest |
0:35.4 | possession of mine that I currently have. I've taken it with me now on probably close |
0:41.1 | to a dozen moves. I've taken this with me, it's like the one thing. It's a book, it's |
0:48.3 | about 300, maybe 400 pages long. It's a hard cover, it's called the Kingfisher Illustrated |
0:55.4 | Encyclopedia of Animals. It's still got the original dust jacket on it and it's honestly |
1:00.8 | for being with me this long, it's an amazingly good shape. Let's, let's, let's read an animal |
1:05.9 | fact here. Let's, let's just, let's just flip through. |
1:11.4 | Page 233, the paradoxical frog. The paradoxical frog is found in tropical South America and spends |
1:21.6 | most of its life in the water. An extraordinary feature of this frog is that the tadpole is |
1:26.0 | several times larger than the adult, being up to 11 inches long and decreasing with size |
1:30.7 | as it matures. The froglets measure only 1.6 inches and at first scientists could not |
1:37.5 | believe that the froglets and the tadpoles both belong to the same species. The adult |
1:43.0 | frogs are usually only about 3 inches long. I can tell you, I mean I could tell you how |
1:49.3 | much this book meant to me, but I think it's fairly well illustrated by the fact that I was |
1:54.1 | so worried I would lose it that I had my mom write my name and phone number in the front cover. |
2:00.5 | And at some later date, I decided that wasn't enough security because I stuck a holographic |
2:07.7 | name plate in the front cover as well. It says property of, and then in my best like |
2:14.0 | kid handwriting, I wrote Jeff Emman. It's a hologram of a koala bear sitting in a tree. |
2:21.6 | And I remember that I thought this was a big deal. And so I did my really my best job |
2:26.6 | writing my name by hand. One of my earliest memories of being pretty upset was one day |
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