The Sounds of Life (eBook)

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Karen Bakker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24098-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity's relationship with nature in the digital age. After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature's sounds, we will never see walks outdoors in the same way again.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: acoustics • activism • Actuator • algorithm • Ambivalence • Amplitude • Analogy • Animal echolocation • Artificial reef • Availability • awareness • background noise • Backstepping • Beautiful Music • Beehive • Beehive fence • Behavior • Bioacoustics • biodiversity • biologist • bird • Bowhead whale • Breathing • carl safina • charismatic megafauna • CITES • climate change • Clothing • Coastal Management • Cognitive ethology • Collaboration • computer vision • Consanguinity • Consciousness • Contemporary Society • Cooperation • coral reef • Cortisol • credibility • crustacean • Cultural Evolution • detection • Digital electronics • Ecology • ecosystem • Emerging Technologies • Emotion • Environmental noise • environmental protection • Ethology • Field Recording • Finding • fishery • Form of life (philosophy) • Great Barrier Reef • Habitat • hatchling • Hearing range • Home Reef • honey bee • Honeyguide • Human • Human Intelligence • Human voice • Hydrophone • Imitation • insect • interaction • Interactivity • interspecies communication • Karaoke • kinetic energy • language • larva • learning • Lifeway • lifeworld • listening • Listening station • Longevity • loudness • Loudspeaker • louse • machine learning • Mammal • Marine Biology • Marine habitats • Marine mammal • Measurement • Microbat • microphone • microscope • Moisture • motor skill • musical instrument • Natural sounds • Noise Pollution • nutrient • Observation • observational learning • odor • organism • peacetime • perception • Person • Pheromone • Phrase (music) • Physiology • Plant • pollution • positive feedback • Propolis • resonance • result • RoboBee • Role • Safety in numbers • Scientist • seagrass • Sediment • Sense • Sense and Respond • Sensory ecology • Shoaling and schooling • Singing • Skill • social animal • Social behavior • Social Environment • Sociality • social relation • Sophistication • SOSUS • Sound • Sound ranging • Sound recording and reproduction • Soundscape • Sound Studies • Sovereignty • Sparrow • Supervisor • Technology • Thought • Torsional Vibration • Touchscreen • Turtle • Twitter • Umwelt • Usage • Vegetation • Vibration • vocal learning • waggle dance • Whale vocalization • whaling • wildlife • worker bee
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24098-1 / 0691240981
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24098-5 / 9780691240985