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This is on point. I'm Magnichacrobardi.

And today we're going to try a little slow journalism, an

entirely different pace of being. So I invite you to join us in some close and deep listening to this. So, Matt Mikkelson joins us today and Matt what are we listening to right now?

Hi Magna, this is a recording I lovingly call popcorn frogs. This is recorded in the

Ecuadorian Amazon jungle on the Zabalo River.

The Zabalo River. So tell us some more about it. What does it look like in the place that you recorded this?

Being from rural New Jersey, the Ecuadorian Amazon is about, different as it gets I'd say from what I grew up with and what I was used to.

The Amazon is this place that we hear about a lot as people and going there for the first time was still unlike anything I could have

imagined. The rivers are huge and wide and there's lots of silt in the water and you just see this

concentration of life that is really hard to, hard to imagine.

Well, let's listen to it just a little bit more of this in the clear for a second.

So the popcorn frogs's there, but can you identify some of the other things that we're hearing?

One of the really incredible things I found about tropical jungles in general, but especially

the Amazon, is the number of different insect and frog species that are making sound at any given

time.

I'm no entomologist. you know, I'm not super great at identifying

specific species, but in this recording you can probably hear 10 to 15 different

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