Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper. Includes note to parents and teachers, and related activities.

A mother dog tries to teach her pup how to bark, and is surprised at why he wasn't learning.

When a cow loses her moo, she searches to see if another animal in the barn has it.

"'Rrrrh!' means 'Let's be friends' in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle 'rum-pum-pum' of the drum can help him find a friend"--

Sounds of the Brazilian rainforest in the evening, as many species of animals call to each other, communicating through the darkness.

Field recording of horse sounds.

This work is the story of one man's pursuit of natural music in its purest form, and an impassioned case for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural resources: the music of the wild. The author is the world's leading expert in natural sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and has archived the sounds of over 15,000 species, half of the wild soundscapes he has on tape do not exist anymore because of human...