The Wildest Noises in Wildlife… and Dunes

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Nature can be pretty noisy, but there's some stuff that's just quiet all the time - right? Well, thanks to advances in audio equipment, researchers are finding out that everything from plants to bacteria have a lot more to say that we thought, despite what you might have heard. Or, not heard.

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https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/bioacoustics-what-natures-sounds-can-tell-us-about-the-health-of-our-world/

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/science/plant-sounds-stress.html
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/15/4483/1749649#36002551

https://acoustics.org/4pab3-can-a-spider-sing-if-so-who-might-be-listening-alexander-l-sweger-george-w-uetz/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2016.1160328
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/listen-dulcet-purr-wolf-spider-180955482/

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0643
https://news.mongabay.com/2015/01/scientists-discover-that-fish-larvae-make-sounds/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01111-6
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgam/44/1/44_1_49/_pdf/-char/en
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20592043221080965


https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007GL030276
https://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/physics-booming-and-burping-sand-dunes-revealed
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4931971


Links to sounds
Tomato plant: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3#supplementaryMaterial

Wolf spider purr: https://soundcloud.com/smithsonianmag/male-wolf-spider-purring-sound?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fsmithsonianmag%252Fmale-wolf-spider-purring-sound

Larvae knocks and growls (first two wav files are recordings from the field, second two are from the lab):
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/suppl/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0643

Drumming bacteria:
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41565-022-01111-6/MediaObjects/41565_2022_1111_MOESM5_ESM.wav

Singing sand dunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-_9IEiFSg&ab_channel=LiveScience
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/singing-sands.htm

Images

https://www.gettyimages.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladicosa_gulosa_P1080633a.jpg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72844678
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72844678
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_snapper_-_Lutjanus_griseus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_snapper.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lutjanus_griseus_-_Sanc1556.jpg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101484903
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E._coli_Bacteria_%2816578744517%29.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E_coli_at_10000x,_original.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_subtilis.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_subtilis_colonies.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin_portrait.jpg
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/singing-sands.htm