Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Bioacoustics & Listening Across Species

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Books

  • Baylis, J. R. (1982) “Avian Vocal Mimicry: Its Function and Evolution.” In Donald Kroodsma, Adward Miller and Henri Ouellet (eds.), Acoustic Communication in Birds. Volume II: Song Learning and Its Consequence (pp. 51-80). New York: Academic Press.

  • Catchpole, C., Peter J.B.S. (2003) Bird Song. Biological Themes and Variations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

  • Farabaugh, S. M. (1982) “The Ecological and Social Significance of Duetting.” In Donald E. Kroodsma, Edward H. Miller and Henri Ouellet (eds.), Acoustic Communication in Birds. Volume II: Song Learning and its Consequences (pp. 85-124). New York, NY: Academic Press.

  • Gandy, M. and Nilsen, B.J. (2014) The acoustic city. London, UK: Jovis.

  • Gell, A. (1995) The language of the forest: Landscape and phonological iconism in Umeda. In The anthropology of landscape: Perspectives on place and space, ed. by Eric Hirsch and Michael O’Hanlon, pp. 232-254. 

  • Howes, D. (2010) Sensual relations: Engaging the senses in culture and social theory. University of Michigan Press.

  • Oliveros, P. (2005) Deep Listening. A Composer’s Sound Practice. New York, NY: iUniverse, Inc.

  • Rothenberg, D. (2008) Thousand Mile Song. Whale Music in a Sea of Sound. New York: Basic Books.

  • Rothenberg, D. (2011) Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

  • Rothenberg, D. (2013) Bug Music: How Insects gave us Rhythm and Noise. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

  • Schafer, R.M. (1993) The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Rochester, Vt: Simon and Schuster.

  • Sterne, J. (2003) The audible past. Duke University Press.

  • Stevens, M. (2013) Sensory ecology, behaviour, and evolution. Oxford University Press.

  • Thomas, J.A., Moss, C.F., Vater, M. (2004) Echolocation in bats and dolphins. University of Chicago press.

 
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Articles

  • Araya-Salas, M. (2012) Is birdsong music? Evaluating harmonic intervals in songs of a Neotropical songbird. Animal Behaviour, 84(2), pp.309-313. 
  • Barber, J.R., Burdett, C.L., Reed, S.E., Warner, K.A., Formichella, C., Crooks, K.R., Theobald, D.M. and Fristrup, K.M. (2011) Anthropogenic noise exposure in protected natural areas: estimating the scale of ecological consequences. Landscape ecology, 26(9), pp.1281-1295.
  • Brooker, J.S. (2016) An investigation of the auditory perception of western lowland gorillas in an enrichment study. Zoo Biology, 35(5), pp. 398-408.
  • Clark, C.W., Gillespie, D., Nowacek, D.P., Parks, S.E., Kraus, S.D. and Rolland, R.M. (2007) Listening to their world: acoustics for monitoring and protecting right whales in an urbanized ocean. The urban whale: North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp.333-357. 
  • Coppola, C.L., Enns, R.M. and Grandin, T. (2006) Noise in the animal shelter environment: building design and the effects of daily noise exposure. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 9(1), pp.1-7.
  • Doolittle, E. (2008) Crickets in the Concert Hall: A History of Animals in Western Music. Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, 12.
  • Doolittle, E. and Gingras, B. (2015) Zoomusicology. Current Biology, 25(19), pp.R819-R820. 
  • Dumyahn, S.L. and Pijanowski, B.C. (2011) Soundscape conservation. Landscape Ecology, 26(9), pp.1327-1344. 
  • Feld, S. (1996) Waterfalls of song: An acoustemology of place resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. Senses of place, 97, pp. 91-135. 
  • Feld, S. (2012) Sound and sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in kaluli expression.  
  • Durham, United Kingdom: Duke University Press.  
  • Friedner, M. and Helmreich, S. (2012) Sound studies meets deaf studies. The Senses and Society, 7(1), pp.72-86.
  • Günther, R.H., O’Connell‐Rodwell, C.E. and Klemperer, S.L. (2004) Seismic waves from elephant vocalizations: A possible communication mode? Geophysical Research Letters, 31(11).
  • Hamilton, L., & Taylor, N. (2017) Ethnography after humanism: Power, politics and method in multi-species research. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • Heffner, R.S. (2004) Primate hearing from a mammalian perspective. The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology: An Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 281(1), pp.1111-1122.
  • Heffner, H.E. and Heffner, R.S. (2007) Hearing ranges of laboratory animals. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 46(1), pp.20-22.
  • Howes, D. (2003) Coming to Our Senses. The sensual turn in Anthropological Understanding. Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory, pp.29-58. 
  • Johnson, A. (1986) The song in the forest: Studies of Swedish herding music. Uppsala: Institutionen för musikvetenskap, University. 
  • Kaplan, G. (2009) Animals and music: between cultural definitions and sensory evidence. Σημειωτκή-Sign Systems Studies, 37(3-4), pp.423-453. 
  • Kight, C.R. and Swaddle, J.P. (2015) Eastern bluebirds alter their song in response to anthropogenic changes in the acoustic environment. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 55(3), pp.418-431.
  • Kogan, L.R., Schoenfeld-Tacher, R. and Simon, A.A. (2012) Behavioral effects of auditory stimulation on kenneled dogs. Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 7(5), pp.268-275.
  • Krause, B. (1987) Bioacoustics, Habitat Ambience in Ecological Balance. Whole Earth Review 57, (n.p.).
  • Krause, B. (2012) The great animal orchestra: finding the origins of music in the world’s wild places. Little, Brown. 
  • Krause, B. and Farina, A. (2016) Using ecoacoustic methods to survey the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Biological conservation, 195, pp.245-254.
  • Mooney, T.A., Yamato, M. and Branstetter, B.K. (2012) Hearing in cetaceans: from natural history to experimental biology. Advances in marine biology, 63, pp.197-246.
  • Owen, M.A., Swaisgood, R.R., Czekala, N.M., Steinman, K. and Lindburg, D.G. (2004) Monitoring stress in captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): behavioral and hormonal responses to ambient noise. Zoo Biology: Published in affiliation with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, 23(2), pp.147-164.
  • Panopoulos, P. (2003) Animal bells as symbols: sound and hearing in a Greek island village. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9(4), pp.639-656. 
  • Paraskevas, I., Potirakis, S.M., Liaperdos, I. and Rangoussi, M. (2011) Development of automatically updated soundmaps for the preservation of natural environment. Journal of Environmental Protection, 2(10), p.1388.
  • Pater, L.L., Grubb, T.G. and Delaney, D.K. (2009) Recommendations for improved assessment of noise impacts on wildlife. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 73(5), pp.788-795.
  • Pijanowski, B.C., Villanueva-Rivera, L.J., Dumyahn, S.L., Farina, A., Krause, B.L., Napoletano, B.M., Gage, S.H. and Pieretti, N. (2011) Soundscape ecology: the science of sound in the landscape. BioScience, 61(3), pp.203-216. 
  • Roosth, S. (2009) Screaming yeast: Sonocytology, cytoplasmic milieus, and cellular subjectivities. Critical Inquiry, 35(2), pp.332-350. 
  • Rothenberg, D. (2006) Why birds sing: a journey through the mystery of bird song. Basic Books. 
  • Rothenberg, D., Roeske, T.C., Voss, H.U., Naguib, M. and Tchernichovski, O. (2014) Investigation of musicality in birdsong. Hearing research, 308, pp.71-83. 
  • Schneider, D.C., Foss, K.D., De Risio, L., Hague, D.W., Mitek, A.E. and McMichael, M. (2019) Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in 3 Working Dogs. Topics in companion animal medicine, 37, p.100362.
  • Simpson, S.D., Purser, J. and Radford, A.N. (2015) Anthropogenic noise compromises antipredator behaviour in European eels. Global change biology, 21(2), pp.586-593.
  • Simpson, S.D., Radford, A.N., Nedelec, S.L., Ferrari, M.C., Chivers, D.P., McCormick, M.I. and Meekan, M.G. (2016) Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation. Nature communications, 7(1), pp.1-7.
  • Slabbekoorn, H. and Peet, M. (2003) Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise. Nature, 424(6946), pp.267-267.
  • Stone, E. (2000) Separating the noise from the noise: a finding in support of the “niche hypothesis,” that birds are influenced by human-induced noise in natural habitats. Anthrozoös, 13(4), pp.225-231. 
  • Tiderman-Österberg, J. (2019) The Shieling Landscape and Herding Music. Falun: Dalarnas Fornminnes-och Hembygdsförbund.  
  • Tobias, M.C. and Morrison, J.G. (2016) Anthrozoology: embracing co-existence in the anthropocene. Springer. 
  • Turner, J.G., Parrish, J.L., Hughes, L.F., Toth, L.A. and Caspary, D.M. (2005) Hearing in laboratory animals: strain differences and nonauditory effects of noise. Comparative medicine, 55(1), pp.12-23.
  • Turner, J.G., Bauer, C.A. and Rybak, L.P. (2007) Noise in animal facilities: why it matters. Journal of the American association for laboratory animal science, 46(1), pp.10-13.
  • Videan, E.N., Fritz, J., Howell, S. and Murphy, J. (2007) Effects of two types and two genre of music on social behavior in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 46(1), pp.66-70.
  • Von Uexkull, J. (1982) The Theory of Meaning. Semiotica 42(1): 25-82
  • Warren, P.S., Katti, M., Ermann, M. and Brazel, A. (2006) Urban bioacoustics: it’s not just noise. Animal behaviour, 71(3), pp.491-502. 
  • Whitehouse, A. (2015) Listening to birds in the Anthropocene: the anxious semiotics of sound in a human-dominated world. Environmental Humanities, 6(1), pp.53-71.
  • Wiseman, S.M. and Wilson, P.S. (2015) Nocturnal peace at a Conservation Center for Species Survival? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), pp. 2250-2250.
  • Yan, H.K. (2013) Can animals sing? On birdsong, music and meaning. Social Science Information, 52(2), pp.272-286.

 

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