Thursday, January 14, 2010

Do All Animals Sound The Same?

All living things are a combination of molecules;the formulation in which they combine differentiates them. Also matter and energy are the two sides of the same coin. There is only Degree of Difference but not in kind.Universe is one stream, conditioning factors for our Perception are Space and Time.Essentially the way we are and the way other living beings and other non living things(in our Perception) is due to Pure Consciousness conditioned by Time and Space
In a study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, researchers adjusted animals sounds for body size and metabolic rate and found a surprising similarity of normalized calls throughout the animal kingdom. Karen Hopkin reports.
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What do a whale and a frog have in common? According to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, pound for pound, they sound the same. Sounds fishy? I mean, if you’ve ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you know that it don’t sound like no spring peeper [frog sound].

But scientists at the University of Florida Health Science Center have compared the calls made by 500 different animals, from crickets [sound] to crocodiles [sound], and ostriches [sound] to chimps [sound]. And they find that the basic features of every animal’s cry, such as frequency and duration, depend on the creature’s metabolism. Which, in turn, depends on the animal’s size and body temperature.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=do-all-animals-sound-the-same-10-01-14

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