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sonar, 308, 309, 312, 315–16
marine vibroseis, 316
marmots, 61
Marquis Yi of Zeng Tomb, 229
martins, 325
Massif Central, 36
maternal bond, 70, 154
mating (mating calls), 115–36
birds, 103–4, 124–26, 132–33, 146–47, 330
costs of calling, 47, 100, 121–23
elk, 85–86
Fisher’s process, 129–36
frogs, 13, 40, 86, 118–21, 124, 126–29, 136–37
insects, 39, 94
marine life, 65, 67–68
research biases, 124–26
role of sound making, 85–86, 117, 124–25
speciation and, 67–68, 161–62
spring peepers, 118–21, 124, 128–29, 136–37
white-crowned sparrows, 146–47
Matisse, Henri, 213
matrilines, 85, 164, 301
maturation, 166
Mayr, Ernst, 188
medications and hearing loss, 25
Mediterranean tree frogs, 127
Melville, Herman, 294
merline, 324, 369
Mesopotamia, 229, 335, 348
Messiaen, Olivier, 182
Metallica, 231–32
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 203
Musical Instruments Collection, 241–42, 243–44
Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), 341
Meyer Sound, 224–27, 234
mice, 30, 32, 40, 125, 128, 250, 338
middle ear, 10, 16–17, 27, 31, 38, 61, 249–50
midges, 35
migrant workers, 264
milk, 69–70
millipedes, 39, 45
mimicry, 103, 104, 119, 122, 157, 158, 164, 178–79, 182
mimids, 178–79
minke whales, 296, 301
Miró, Joan, 213
miscegenation, 129
mites, 45, 127–28
Moche civilization, 242
mockingbirds, 164, 178
mole crickets, 194, 223, 236
moles, 61
molluscs, 44, 45
monk parakeets, 325
monocultures, 48
Montealegre-Z, Fernando, 42
Moogfest, 234
Moore, Henry, 213
moral nihilism, 376
Mori Point, 147–48
Moses, Robert, 339–40
moss bugs, 55
moss campion, 144, 145
mosses, 43, 52, 177, 178
moths, 17, 56
motor control, 166
“motor cortex,” 75
mountain buckwheat, 144
mountain winds, 83–84
Mount Scopus (Jerusalem), 173–76, 190
mousebirds, 325
Mozi, 229
mpingo, 241, 243–46
Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative, 246
Mulawarman University, 286
Münzel, Susanne, 195
Murdoch, Iris, 140
Museum of Modern Art (New York City), 213, 235
music, 97–98, 111, 193–258
acoustic space and, 216–17, 219–20, 233–36
relation to human body, 137, 248, 250–53
sounds of nonhuman animals, 253–56
speech and, 200–201
value of, 197–98
written notation, 169, 214
musical instruments, 193–200. See also Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments
acoustic space and sound, 216–17, 219–29, 233–36
author’s attempt crafting and playing, 204–7
history of, 193–204, 229–31
violin and vertebrate evolution, 248–51
vocal system and, 71, 206–8
woods and materials, 240–47
Musical Instruments Collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 241–42, 243–44
music programs, 197
mynas, 325
N
Nakamura, Uko, 354
Namikozo (“wave boy”), 357
Napoleon III, 325
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 294
National Botanic Garden of Israel (Jerusalem), 173–76
National Geographic (magazine), 294
National Marine Fisheries Service, 316
National Sawdust (New York), 224–29, 233
Natural Resources Defense Council, 262
natural selection, 39, 101, 157, 166
“natural sound” in recital halls 226, 227
Nature Conservancy, The, 277, 286
naval sonar, 12, 308, 309, 312, 315–16
Navy, U.S., 292, 308, 316
Neanderthals, 75, 76, 202, 218
Neanderthal tools, 202
Negrón, Angélica, 365–68, 369, 371
nematodes, 46
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, 281
neomycin and hearing loss, 25
Nepal, forest management, 286
neurotypicals, 347–48
New York Botanical Garden, 365–68, 371
New York City, xi–xii, 333–37, 339–50. See also city noise
New York City Ballet, 226
New York City Opera, 226
New Yorker, 226–27
New York Philharmonic, 182, 226, 238–39, 247–48, 256–57, 294
New York State Theater, 226
New York Times, 226
night-herons, 325, 333
Nightingales in Berlin (film), 370–71
nitrogen, 52–53
“noble savage,” 287
noise codes, 343
noise pollution, 335–46. See also city noise; ocean noise
Noosa River, 359, 362, 364
North Boulder Creek, 81–82
northern parulas, 178
North River Sewage Treatment Plant (New York), 340
O
oboe reeds, 71, 212, 239–40
oboes, 212, 235, 239–41, 243, 245
oceans (ocean life), 62–69, 291–319. See also fish; whales; and specific species
decline, 69
defaunation of the, 69
evolution, 44–45, 46
food web, 67, 311
Le Monde du Silence (documentary), 62–63, 69
role of physical environment on sound, 90–91
salt marshes, 10–19, 51, 176–80
sound and hydrophones, 11–12, 13, 19, 62–63, 275, 292–93, 303–4, 363
ocean noise, 69, 303–19
negative effects of, 309–13
oil exploration, 309–12, 316
regulation of, 316–17
ship noise, 303–9, 314–17
sonar, 308, 309, 312, 315–16
O’Connell, Naomi Louisa, 225
oil exploration, 309–12, 316
Old World flycatchers, 175
olive oil, 51
Oliveros, Pauline, 364
100 Sites of Good Fragrance, 358
100 Soundscapes of Japan, 353–58
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 125–26
Open Space Institute, 262
oral glissando, 210, 213
orangutans, 194
orca whales, 163, 299–309, 313–14
Orcus, 300
Ordovician Period, 45
origins of life, 3–7, 16, 23–24
origins of the universe, 374–76
oropendolas, 180
Orthoptera, 40, 41–42
overexploitation, 245
overfishing, 69
owls, 95–96, 101, 103, 107
oystercatchers, 86
oyster toadfish, 13, 15, 19, 152, 176
P
Pacific tree frogs, 126–27
Paleolithic carved figurines, 198–99, 202, 203, 213–14
Paleolithic cave art, 213–14, 221–22
Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments, 193–200, 213–14, 229, 242–43
author’s attempt crafting and playing, 204–7
methods of playing, 208–11
reconstruction, 211–13
Paleolithic musical instruments, 211
Paleozoic, 100
palm oil, 51, 280, 286
Pangaea, 36, 66–67, 185–86
Papua New Guinea, 277, 284, 285
Parasaurolophus, 60
Paris
author’s auditory memories of, 322–24
blackbirds’ colonization of, 321–26, 331–32
parrots, 108, 112, 153, 156, 164, 170, 182, 186, 188
parulids, 178
Payne, Roger and Katharine, 293–94, 295, 317, 318
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), 306
pelicans, 148
penguins, 60, 110, 302
percussive music, 201–2
Permian Period, 36–38, 50
Permian-Triassic extinction event, 50
Permostridulus, 37–39, 40–42, 47, 49, 100
Pernambuco wood, 243, 244, 245
Peruvian Amazon rainforest, 109–10, 285
pesticides, 179, 306
Pete, Ermes, 283
Philippines, 283
photosynthesis, 67, 280, 365
phylogenetic tree. See evolutionary tree
physical environment, effects on sound, 86–91, 94. See also city noise; ocean noise
acoustic competition, 105–10
piano keys, 245
pianos, 147, 210, 230, 231, 244, 367
Picasso, Pablo, 213
pied butcherbirds, 180–81
pigeons, 30, 298, 325
pig frogs, 177
pikas, 145
Pinderhughes, Elena, 225, 234
pine plantations, 262–67, 290
pine warblers, 265
pine woods, 51
Pink Floyd, 165
pipe organs, 71, 209, 229, 242
piranhas, 65
pitch, 17, 18, 28
plankton, 67, 300, 311
plastic keyboards, 244
plastic pollution, 295, 298, 306
plate tectonics, 36, 66–67
poison dart frogs, 109–10
Pomiankowski, Andrew, 131
pond scum, 22–23, 24
porpoises, 30, 300–301
Port of Vancouver, 307
Potengowski, Anna Friederike, 208–13
prairie dogs, 269
prairie mole crickets, 194, 223, 236
predation, 38–39, 44–47, 63–64, 100–104, 119, 250
alarm calls and, 101–4
Préhistoire, une énigme moderne (exhibit), 213
Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa (exhibit), 213
prestin, 24
Prestini, Paola, 228
primal sound, 3–7
Prokop, Zofia, 131
Prum, Richard, 131
psalms, 201
Puerto Rican forests, 275
Putnam’s cicada, 106
pygmy marmosets, 107
