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Noise pollution --- National parks and reserves --- Animal sounds --- Animal language --- Animal communication --- Bioacoustics --- Nature sounds --- Pollution

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Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.To frame his analysis, McQuinn employs Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal, Donna Haraway’s definitions of multispecies becoming-with, and Mladen Dolar’s ideas of voice-as-object. McQuinn considers birdsong in the work of Beatrice Harrison, Olivier Messiaen, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Daniela Cattivelli, and Marcus Coates; the voice of the canine as a sacrificial lab animal in the operatic work of Alexander Raskatov; hierarchies of vocalization in human-simian cultural coevolution in theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka and Eugene O’Neill; and the acoustic exchanges among hybrid human-animal creations in Harrison Birtwistle’s opera The Minotaur. Inspired by the operatic voice and drawing from work in art and performance studies, animal studies, zooarchaeology, social and cultural anthropology, and philosophy, McQuinn demonstrates that sounding animality in performance resonates “through the labyrinths of the cultural and the creatural,” not only across species but also beyond the limits of the human.Timely and provocative, this volume outlines new methods of unsettling human exceptionalism during a period of urgent reevaluation of interspecies relations. Students and scholars of human-animal studies, performance studies, and art historians working at the nexus of human and animal will find McQuinn’s book enlightening and edifying.

Performance art. --- Human-animal relationships in the performing arts. --- Human-animal relationships in art. --- Animal sounds.

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Bird song is one of the most remarkable and impressive sounds in the natural world, and has inspired not only students of natural history, but also great writers, poets and composers. Extensively updated from the first edition, the main thrust of this book is to suggest that the two main functions of song are attracting a mate and defending territory. It shows how this evolutionary pressure has led to the amazing variety and complexity we see in the songs of different species throughout the world. Writing primarily for students and researchers in animal behavior, the authors review over 1000 scientific papers and reveal how scientists are beginning to unravel and understand how and why birds communicate with the elaborate vocalizations we call song. Highly illustrated throughout and written in straightforward language, Bird Song also holds appeal for amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology.

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Talking birds --- Vocalization. --- Behavior. --- Animal psychology and neurophysiology

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Passive acoustic monitoring is increasingly used by the scientific community to study, survey and census marine mammals, especially cetaceans, many of which are easier to hear than to see. PAM is also used to support efforts to mitigate potential negative effects of human activities such as ship traffic, military and civilian sonar and offshore exploration. Walter Zimmer provides an integrated approach to PAM, combining physical principles, discussion of technical tools and application-oriented concepts of operations. Additionally, relevant information and tools necessary to assess existing and future PAM systems are presented, with Matlab code used to generate figures and results so readers can reproduce data and modify code to analyse the impact of changes. This allows the principles to be studied whilst discovering potential difficulties and side effects. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, the book provides all information and tools necessary to gain a comprehensive understanding of this interdisciplinary subject.

Cetacea --- Dolphin sounds. --- Whale sounds. --- Cétacés. --- Cétacés --- Chant des baleines. --- Dauphins --- Monitoring. --- Effect of noise on. --- Observations. --- Effets du bruit. --- Sons. --- Whale songs --- Animal sounds --- Cetaceans --- Cete --- Cetomorpha --- Mammals

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Insect Hearing provides a broadly based view of the functions, mechanisms, and evolution of hearing in insects. With a single exception, the chapters focus on problems of hearing and their solutions, rather than being focused on particular taxa. The exception, hearing in Drosophila, serves as a case study of one of the most important model systems in neurobiology, including the neurobiology of hearing. Auditory systems, whether insect or vertebrate, must perform a number of basic tasks: capturing mechanical stimuli and transducing these into neural activity, representing the timing and frequency of sound signals, distinguishing between behaviorally relevant signals and other sounds and localizing sound sources. Studying how these are accomplished in insects offers a valuable comparative view that helps to reveal general principles of auditory function. · Introduction to Insect Acoustics by Andrew C. Mason and Gerald S. Pollack · Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Insects by Michael D. Greenfield · Behavioral Ecology of Insect Acoustic Communication by Rohini Balakrishnan · Hearing for Defense by Gerald S. Pollack · Vibrational Signaling by Jayne Yack · Mechanical Specializations of Insect Ears by James F. C. Windmill and Joseph C. Jackson · Auditory Transduction by Daniel F. Eberl, Azusa Kamikouchi, and Joerg T. Albert · Central Neural Processing of Sound Signals in Insects by Berthold Hedwig and Andreas Stumpner · Information Processing in the Auditory Pathway of Insects by Bernhard Ronacher · Hearing in Drosophila by Azusa Kamikouchi and Yuki Ishikawa About the Editors: Gerald Pollack is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at McGill University. Andrew Mason is Associate Professor & Chair in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. About the Series: The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of synthetic reviews of fundamental topics dealing with auditory systems. Each volume is independent and authoritative; taken as a set, this series is the definitive resource in the field.

Life sciences. --- Neurosciences. --- Otorhinolaryngology. --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Insects --- Insect sounds. --- Bioacoustics. --- Physiology. --- Biological acoustics --- Insect calls --- Insect song --- Sound --- Animal sounds --- Sound production by insects --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Ear, nose, and throat diseases --- ENT diseases --- Otorhinolaryngology --- Medicine --- Zoology