Tag Archives: Macaulay Library

New Macaulay Library clips let you listen to gibbons hoot in Thailand’s forests

December 21, 2012 – 11:59 am

The Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest archive of natural sounds and video, and you can browse its holdings online. Though it’s best known for its bird recordings, the Macaulay Library also features insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals—including a recent addition: gibbons recorded in the wild in Thailand. They’re the [...]

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With Digitization Complete, Hear 7 of the Coolest Natural Sounds in Our Archive

December 4, 2012 – 2:58 pm

To a computer, it’s just a complex combination of ones and zeros. Decoded for our ears, it becomes wondrous sound—a symphony, or the song of a lark. Thanks to digital technology, recordings of bird, insect, mammal, fish, and amphibian voices in the Lab’s Macaulay Library will last virtually forever. It’s taken more than 12 years, [...]

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