Re: Giraffes Communicating By Infrasound

[Stephan Pickering <stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com>]

REPLY: while Liz von Muggenthaler's bioacoustics work
is indefatigible, one must point out the the concept
of infrasonics among giraffe has been a subject of
research by others. In my book-in-progress, ALFRED
RUSSEL WALLACE'S "KING KONG",I devote considerable
space to not only their cardiovascular system, but
their infrasonics.
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--- Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> wrote:
> The Friday evening ABC news had a segment on this.
> Went to their web site:
> 
> 
>
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/giraffes021010.html
>  By Lynn Sherr
>  ... 
>  But now it turns out these amazing creatures have
> yet another secret.
>  Astonishing new evidence indicates that these
> mammals we have always
>  considered mute may actually be "talking" to each
> other.
> 
>  "We believe that giraffes are forcing large columns
> of air out their
>  long, long trachea, and out of a small opening,
> which is actually their
>  larynx," says bioacoustical researcher Liz von
> Muggenthaler, president of
>  the Fauna Communications Research Institute in
> North Carolina. "And that
>  is creating a sound."
> 
>  Von Muggenthaler has made a startling discovery.
> She says giraffes are
>  communicating in a range far beneath our own
> hearing, called infrasound.
>  And she says it's produced when the giraffes throw
> back their heads.
> 
>  "What this is doing is opening up the larynx so
> that air can pass freely
>  through," she says. "If you could hear it, it would
> sound like a great
>  burst of air: PSSH." 
>  ...
>  Lynn Sherr hosts a one-hour special on giraffes,
> Tall Blondes, on Nature,
>  this Sunday on PBS at 8 p.m. ET. 
> 
> Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was
> long necked
> sauropods...
> 
> 
> 


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