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INDEX
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
abstrahere, 272
Academy Awards, 62
Acadian flycatchers, 179, 187
acoustic competition, 105–10
acoustic ecology. See also soundscapes
use of term, 358
acoustic recordings, 272–81
acoustic space and music, 216–17, 219–29, 233–36
of caves, 216–17, 219–23
at National Sawdust, 224–28, 233
Adams, Eric, 341
Adams, John Luther, 368
“Adam’s apple,” 73
aesthetic experience, 40, 98, 137–41
aesthetic foundations for ethics, 137–41
aesthetic preferences, 124, 127, 129–36, 138
African birds, 104, 175, 187, 325
African cities, noise levels in, 338
African frogs, 186
African harps, 242
aging, 26
telomeres and, 328, 330–31
agriculture, 48, 51, 170, 174, 264, 267, 306
airplane noise, xi, 85, 337–38, 338, 343
alarm calls, 101–4
Alexandria, 229
alligators, 60
Alpine sandwort, 144
alpine tundra, 143–47
Alsop, Marin, 226
Amazon rainforest, 95–101, 104–5, 107–13, 127, 184
acoustic competition in, 105–12
indigenous community land rights, 283, 285–86
Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 95–101, 111–13
Amazon Watch, 283
ambient noise, 232, 308, 355
American blackbirds, 187
American goldfinches, 261–62
American pipits, 145–46
American robins, 179
ancient flutes. See Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments
annelid worms, 46
Antarctica, 58, 185, 302, 309
Antarctic blue whales, 295
aphids, 122
apricot wood, 240
Archaea, 5–6
Arctic Circle, 145, 150
arctic fox, 197
arctic hare, 197
Arp, Hans, 213
art
beauty and aesthetic experience, 130, 137–41
Paleolithic as inspiration for modern artists and art curators, 213–14
Paleolithic carved figurines, 198–99, 202, 203, 213–14
Paleolithic cave art, 199, 203, 204, 221–22
Paleolithic flutes. See Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments
soundscapes. See soundscapes
arthropods, 6, 38–39, 41, 44, 45, 46–47
“artificial intelligence,” 275, 283–84
Asian golden cats, 88
aspirin and hearing loss, 25
“assisted resonance” systems, 225
Atlantic croakers, 13, 18, 19
attentive listening, 171
audio frequency. See sound frequency
AudioMoth, 274–75
auditory illusions, 28–29
auditory memories, 322–24
auditory ossicles. See ear bones
August 4, 1964 (Stucky), 257
aural bird surveys, 261–63, 265–66, 268
Aurignacian artisans, 202–4, 218. See also Paleolithic flutes
Australia
Barclay’s River Listening Sound Walk, 359–65
birds, 180–84, 186–89
indigenous community land rights, 285
Australia Blue Mountains, 162–63
Australian Acoustic Observatory, 276
Australian magpies, 182
Australo-Pacific homeland of songbirds, 186–88
B
Babbitt, Milton, 179–80
Babylonia, 335
Bacillus subtilis, 4
background noise, 91, 327–28
bacteria, 4–6, 17, 43–44, 52, 253
badgers, 61
“Bad Guy” (song), 233
baleen whales, 301, 311
bamboo wood, 194, 209, 240
Barclay, Leah, 359–65
Barclay’s River Listening Sound Walk, 359–65
barn swallows, 179
Bashō, Matsuo, 358
bathroom singers, 217
bats, 31, 56, 71, 153, 275
Bay of Fundy, 297
beaks, 57–58, 61, 82, 84, 88–89, 160
beauty and aesthetic experience, 130, 137–41
Béthoux, Olivier, 37–38
Bhatia, Rafiq, 225
Białowieża Forest, 267
biases
for birds and birdsong, 189–90, 274
perception of loudness, 29–30
sex research, 124–26
taxonomic, 189–90, 274
bichir, 66
big data, 273–75
biodiversity crisis, xii–xiv, 48–49, 62, 288, 317
biodiversity loss, 170, 262–63, 267–68
biogem, 262
biogeography, 185, 187–88
biological ornament, 129–32
bipedalism, 72, 252
bird-bone flutes, 194–200, 204–7, 210–11, 221
birds. See also specific species
author’s surveys, 261–63, 265–66, 268, 278
beaks, 57–58, 61, 82, 84, 88–89, 160
bias in research, 124–26, 189–90, 274
in cities, 321–50
decline, 58, 163, 169–70, 189, 330
evolution and classification, 16–17, 18, 57–59, 61, 99, 132–33, 135, 161–63, 165–66, 185, 188–89
fossil records, 57–59
hearing, 16–17, 18, 61, 168
migration, 150–51, 155, 158–62
social learning, 153–61, 166–67
bird vocalization (bird songs), 15, 17, 81–84
acoustic competition, 105–10
acoustic recordings, 83–84, 148–49, 272–81
alarm calls and predation, 101–4
anatomy and evolution, 15, 57–59, 75
aural surveys, 261–63, 265–66, 268
in cites, 321–24, 329–32
on Crowdy Bay, 180–84, 186–87
diet’s role, 88–89
evolutionary trees, 135
learning of, 153–63, 166–67
mating, 103–4, 124–26, 132–33, 146–47, 330
on Mount Scopus, 174–76
physical environment’s role, 86–87
on Saint Catherines Island, 178–79
songbird emigration, 186–89
speciation and, 161–63
timing, 106–7, 108–9
use of terms, 40
bitter cress, 150
blackbirds, 174–75, 187, 321–26, 329–30, 332
Blaubeuren Museum of Prehistory, 193–200, 218
Blombos Cave, 203
blood pressure, 338
blue-gray gnatcatchers, 265
boat-tailed grackles, 178
Boehm, Theobald, 230
Bolivia, 285
bone conduction of sound, 250–51
bonobos, 153, 202
boreal forests, 51, 99
Bornean barbets, 270
Borneo rain forests, 269–71, 279, 280, 282, 286–87, 290, 317
bowhead whales, 90, 318
boxwood, 240, 242, 244
brain, 27–30
aesthetic experience and, 139
auditory illusions, 28–29
auditory memories and, 323
biased perceptions of sound, 29–30
hearing and, 23, 24, 27–29
musical processing, 200–201, 254
speech and, 75–77
vocal perception and memory, 167
bramevac, 240
brasa, 245
Brazil, naming of, 245
Brazil rainforests, 245, 282–83
breeding. See mating
“brick-walling,” 231–32
British Museum (London), 203
brittle stars, 313
Brooklyn Prospect Park, xi–xii, 339–40
Brothers Grimm, 281
brown-headed cowbirds, 180
brown thrashers, 156, 178–79
bugling calls, 60, 85–86
bulbuls, 325
bullfrogs, 120
bumblebees, 145
Burivalova, Zuzana, 272, 273, 275, 277–78, 279, 286
butcherbirds, 180–81, 183, 186
butterflies, 56
butterflyfish, 65
C
caciques, 180
calandra larks, 87
Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers), 231–32
“calling narratives” of San, 201
calls. See also mating (mating calls)
alarm calls and predation, 101–4
use of term, 40
Cambrian explosion, 53
Cambrian Period, 44–45
Camino de Santiago, 36
canaries, 174, 324
Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or, 62
canola oil, 51
cantillations, 201
caracals, 88
carbon dating, 199–200
carbon dioxide, 48–49, 57, 176
carbon sinks, 286, 288
Carolina wren, 122–23
Carolina wrens, 179
carp, 91
carrion flies, 130
catbirds, 182
catfish, 65, 91
cats, 30, 73, 255
cave acoustics, 216–17, 219–23
cave art, 199, 203, 204, 221–22
Cave of El Castillo, 203
cellos, 226, 246, 251
cells, 4–7
hair, 6–7, 10, 14–15, 21–22, 24–26, 28, 29
centipedes, 45
Centre Pompidou (Paris), 213
cephalopods, 45
Cézanne, Paul, 213
Chang, Ian, 225
chants, 201
Cherokee, 262
chickadees, 83, 116
Chicxulub crater, 58
childbirth, 10
chimpanzees, 74–75, 88, 153, 202, 254
Chinook salmon, 301, 304, 306, 310
chipmunks, 88
Chorus of the Forest (performance), 365–68, 369, 371
Ciani, Suzanne, 234
cicadas, 35, 173–74, 176, 177, 182–83, 337
acoustic competition, 106
distribution, 185–86
