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Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Frog Choruses at Night

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Need a break from politics and the pandemic? You’re probably not in the Amazon rain forest right now, but we can take you there in audio. Today, in part two of our three-part audio sound escape, we descend into a nighttime flood of frog music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:20.1

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:22.7

.jp. That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp.

0:28.0

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:31.1

This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science.

0:38.3

I'm Jeff Delvisio.

0:40.3

Today, part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon Rainforest.

0:46.3

And in this episode, we're going into the dark.

0:50.3

Make sure to catch the first episode on the mysterious Pink River Dolphin after you listen to this one.

0:56.5

Again, joining us is Tim Weaver, a professor of emergent digital practices,

1:00.9

and a multimedia and sound artist at the University of Denver.

1:04.1

Tim has traveled to the Amazon for years to collect what he calls the acoustic plenitude that's there.

1:09.2

But before we listen to that plenitude,

1:13.7

let's talk about a phenomenon with a strange name,

1:15.3

the Sherawaji Effect.

1:17.9

Tim, what is that exactly?

1:24.1

The Sherawaji effect is actually an approximation of the psychoacoustics that are happening.

1:25.5

Psychoacoustics.

1:31.2

That is the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects.

1:33.6

Thanks, Oxford Dictionary.

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