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[Augustine Leudar]

Well apparently mice sing in ultrasound so I will find a use for my ultrasonic microphones, recording romantic rodents !

New scientist article :


  http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8237&feedId= online-news_rss20

Quote:

Mouse songs are sung at ultrasonic frequencies, which is why no one has noticed their complexity before, nor indeed been moved to celebrate the tunes in romantic poetry

         

[Augustine Leudar]

Ok so I take it no-one found that funny  

[Ronny]

Augustine Leudar wrote on Fri, 04 November 2005 20:01

Ok so I take it no-one found that funny

There has been a rash of mice jokes on the recording newsgroups the past couple of days, due to the new research being publicized.

Wouldn't surprise me if there were a lot of animals or even most of the small rodent sized ones, that communicate with ultrafrequencies, or large animals that communicate with infrafrequencies.

[Barry Hufker]

I found it fascinating.  And it happened right here in St. Louis!!

How cool.

Barry

[compasspnt]

Augustine Leudar wrote on Fri, 04 November 2005 16:10

...Mouse songs are sung at ultrasonic frequencies, which is why no one has noticed their complexity before, nor indeed been moved to celebrate the tunes in romantic poetry...

Well I, for one, intend to write such celebratory romantic poetry, extolling the pastoral accomplishments of our rodentary brethren.

Stay tuned...

[compasspnt]

...but you will have to buy an Ultrasonic Player from Johnny B to read it!

[danickstr]

i think this is a great use for the Sanken Mic.  about the second one that comes to mind.  

[PaulyD]

Ronny wrote on Fri, 04 November 2005 17:12

Wouldn't surprise me if there were...large animals that communicate with infrafrequencies.

Elephants do indeed communicate infra-sonically. I've read that this same behavior is now suspected of other pachyderms and whales.

http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=74&a mp;articleID=1057

Paul

[dcollins]

 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/11/07/somalia.pirates.s onic.ap/

http://www.atcsd.com/pdf/LRAD_SellSht-0728-2.pdf

[Ronny]

PaulyD wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 00:57

Ronny wrote on Fri, 04 November 2005 17:12 Wouldn't surprise me if there were...large animals that communicate with infrafrequencies. Elephants do indeed communicate infra-sonically. I've read that this same behavior is now suspected of other pachyderms and whales.  http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=74&a mp;a mp;articleID=1057 Paul

No doubt Paul.  

On a related note, I was watching Discovery channel awhile back and saw a segment about the sound channel in the Earth's oceans. Supposedly there is a layer of water where sound travels farther. They were saying whales are congregating at that level and singing songs to each other with over 1,000 miles distance between them.

Even the whales know, that it all starts with proper mic placement.    

[bobkatz]

dcollins wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 01:10

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/11/07/somalia.pirates.s onic.ap/ http://www.atcsd.com/pdf/LRAD_SellSht-0728-2.pdf

My god...  just when I thought it was safe to get back in the water.


BK