After setting up a glass plate with contact microphone attached and spreading birdseed on top, Libby and Marcel of Free To Use Sounds captured the surprisingly soothing sounds of an increasing number of pigeons pecking at (and walking on) the glass. It sounds like a rain storm coming! And you
This is a video of a frog that sounds like a woman screaming that kept nearby homeowners up all night. I can hear why. Although I bet it’s just begging for a kiss so it can turn back into a prince or princess. *shrug* I’d take my chances. I mean
This is a video from Destin of Youtube channel Smarter Every Day detailing how cicadas are able to make such an ungodly racket, filming their noisemakers at 110,000FPS. Basically, male cicadas have special organs on the sides of their thorax called tymbals. When their muscles are flexed, the tymbals’ ribs
Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, these noise-cancelling headphones are able to cancel all outside noise except for a person’s voice through the power of AI. You just push a button on the side of the phones to train the AI on a person’s vocal patterns, and BOOM,
Canadian children’s book author and illustrator Lulu Lotus recently set the Guinness World Record for loudest nose whistle, with an impressive 44.1dB snoot hooter. That’s about as loud as a bird’s call. In her own words while I go blow my nose (technically pick) so it stops unintentionally whistling when
This is a video of Australian magpies R2-D2, Baldy, and Mrs. R2 singing to produce what can only be described as a terrible sound. It’s like electronic distortion. When they sing individually they actually sound pleasant, but when they get the whole band together it’s just a cacophony. That said,
This is a video of Jabber, a beautiful human-imprinted European starling mimicking its owner, and throwing in a surprisingly accurate R2-D2 impression just to keep things spicy. And you know how I feel about spicy! Actually you might not, but I love it. I even did that Paqui One Chip
This is a video of Hank the donkey of Triple Brook Farm in Ball Ground, Georgia greeting caretaker Tabitha with a series of good morning brays to get the day started off right. Now I kind of want a donkey to hit me with a good morning hello to get