To hear the vocalizations :
click on the arrows under the portraits
(and find the animal in the book thanks to the chapter title)
The recordings on this page do not follow any logical order!
The aim is simply to offer you a short sound journey among the animals present in the book.
If you have HIFI headphones or earphones, it's even better...
Birds: White-browed warbler, kittiwake, zebra finch, screaming piha (the "voice of the Amazon"), warbler, shearwater, ptarmigan, woodcock, fairy-wren, blue-footed booby, King penguin, Eurasian wren.
Mammals: walrus, sea lion, humpback whale, orca, bearded seal, elephant seal, hyena, chimpanzee, bonobo.
and also... crocodile and drosophila fly!
This song is produced by the male warbler, to defend his territory and attract a female.
Mata Atlantica, Brazil.
(chapter "The warbler's eyebrows")
Vocal exchange between a walrus mother and her young.
Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
(chapter "Family dinner")
Female and male kittiwakes can recognize each other by these calls.
Island of Hornoya, Norway.
(chapter "Cocktails between birds")
Long-distance calls of the zebra finch.
Recorded in captivity
(chapter "The booby's foot")
Song of the screaming piha (the voice of the Amazon).
The very discreet plumage of this bird makes it almost impossible to see.
Amazonian forest, Belem, Brazil
(recorded by Frédéric Sèbe)
(chapter "Networking addiction")
Shearwater call
Port-Cros island
(recorded by Charlotte Curé)
(chapter "The booby's foot")
This song is emitted under water, in the Arctic Ocean.
Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada.
(recorded by Isabelle Charrier)
(chapter "Submarine ears")
This call signals hatching time to the mother caiman.
(chapter "The Caiman's tears")
This song is emitted in flight. It begins with a low cooing followed by a high-pitched "psiiit".
Island of Pico, Azores
(chapter "Learning to talk")
Alarm calls from the Superb fairy wren
Canberra, Australia
(chapter "The laughing hyena")
Calls of the blue-footed booby (female and male).
In these birds, the partners recognized each other by voice.
Isla Isabel, Pacific Ocean, Mexico
(chapter "The booby's foot")
Elephant seals recognize the voices of their rivals.
California, USA
(chapter "The tango of the elephant seals")
Vocalisations produced by a young bonobo calling his mother
Democratic Republic of Congo
(recorded by Florence Levréro)
(chapter "Ancestral fears")
Vocalisations produced by a young chimpanzee calling its mother
Uganda
(recorded by Florence Levréro)
(chapter "Ancestral fears")
(chapter "The laughing hyena")
Song of the drosophila fly
(Recorded by Fanny Rybak)
(chapter "Hear at all costs")
(chapter "The warbler's eyebrows")
Recording of a king penguin colony
It is almost impossible to distinguish the voice of an adult from the background noise. If you are very attentive, you can sometimes hear the call, more acute, of a youngster.
Crozet Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Territories
(recorded by Thierry Aubin)
(chapter "Cocktails between birds")
In the king penguin, female and male recognized each other by their voice.
Crozet Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Territories
(recorded by Thierry Aubin)
(chapter "Cocktails between birds")
Orca vocalizations.
Atlantic Ocean, Norway
Recording given by Charlotte Curé
- 3S consortium
(chapter "Submarine ears")
Ptarmigan song
French Alps
(recorded by Frédéric Sèbe)
(chapter "Listening to the living")
Sound reunion between a mother sea lion and her young.
Amsterdam Island
(recorded by Isabelle Charrier)
(chapter "Family dinner")
Humpback whale song
Madagascar
(recorded by Isabelle Charrier)
(chapter "Submarine ears")
Warbler song
Saint-Etienne, France
