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Science Sound(E)scapes: Head Banging and Howling in the Amazon

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Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 11 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 three of our three-part audio sound escape, we ascend into the trees where howler monkeys and crimson-crested woodpeckers rule the airwaves. 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. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:31.0

This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science.

0:37.8

I'm Jeff Delvisio.

0:39.6

Today, the final episode of our three-part sound escape to the Amazon rainforest.

0:44.8

In today's episode, we're going into the trees.

0:50.2

And be sure to catch the other episodes of this podcast miniseries.

0:58.1

The first one was on the Pink River Dolphin, and the second was on the frog choruses.

1:01.7

Tim Waver is back with us to finish out our Amazon audio tour.

1:02.6

Thanks, Jeff.

1:09.0

And just to remind you, Tim is a professor of emergent digital practices and a multimedia and sound artist at the University of Denver.

1:15.8

Together, we've chased Pink River Dolphins through drowned forests. We've taken sonic strolls very carefully through the understory awash and frog music, and now we ascend into the trees. Tim, tell us a little bit about where

1:21.7

we're going and what we're going to find up there. Yeah, we've been through kind of three layers of

1:25.9

the Amazon underwater to the forest floor story, and now we'll go up into the canopy.

1:31.4

It's a totally different ecosystem up there, and very difficult to record up there.

1:35.5

But again, it's incredibly biodiverse.

1:39.1

There are mammals that live up there.

1:41.2

There's species that have yet to be discovered up there.

1:45.3

And, of course,

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