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threesixtyrhi's review
5.0
This is one of the more fascinating and informative non-fiction books I have read. The author discusses how advances in bioacoustic technology have allowed us to listen to how certain animals communicate with one another and their environment - animals we can't hear with just our ears. One thing I loved about this book was the author also included Indigenous perspectives and knowledge in addition to just Western science. I think this is an important read as it also documents how noise pollution is negatively impacting animals and their habitats, and provides solutions for preventing further degradation of the environment and endangerment of animal species.
sillymilly's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
I really enjoyed listening to this book. I don't think I would have liked it as much if I read it. I learned a lot and want to go back and listen to a few chapters again. There were some things I already knew but getting more in depth was very interesting!
mkesten's review
5.0
Karen Bakker must be a wonderful teacher. She is a scientist who labours in the arcane fields of environmental governance and digital transformation.
She is knowledgeable in biology and animal behaviour. She listens to aboriginal elders and the voices of the sea, and advances in experimental techniques of acoustics and artificial intelligence.
I can’t imagine a better guide to the burgeoning fields of bio-accoustics and eco-accoustics.
In this slim work she invites us into the questions of what other species say to each other and what are we missing out on.
But technology has a marvelous way of opening new vistas to us. In this case acoustical engineering helps us map whales in the seas, follow a honeybee to its next home, or listen to the inaudible — to the human ear — crackling of a stalk of corn.
I am particularly sensitive to sound so when she tells us that noise pollution is cutting us off from nature and hastening the demise of species I hear her loud and clear.
Why is this so important?
Because we are silently killing our fellow creatures at an alarming rate; because we are desecrating the wilderness; because there’s no way back; because some of us love this planet.
NB: If you enjoy this book you will also enjoy Ed Yong’s An Immense World and Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, another terrific Canadian scientist.
She is knowledgeable in biology and animal behaviour. She listens to aboriginal elders and the voices of the sea, and advances in experimental techniques of acoustics and artificial intelligence.
I can’t imagine a better guide to the burgeoning fields of bio-accoustics and eco-accoustics.
In this slim work she invites us into the questions of what other species say to each other and what are we missing out on.
But technology has a marvelous way of opening new vistas to us. In this case acoustical engineering helps us map whales in the seas, follow a honeybee to its next home, or listen to the inaudible — to the human ear — crackling of a stalk of corn.
I am particularly sensitive to sound so when she tells us that noise pollution is cutting us off from nature and hastening the demise of species I hear her loud and clear.
Why is this so important?
Because we are silently killing our fellow creatures at an alarming rate; because we are desecrating the wilderness; because there’s no way back; because some of us love this planet.
NB: If you enjoy this book you will also enjoy Ed Yong’s An Immense World and Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, another terrific Canadian scientist.