Sounds Wild and Broken, page 53
vocal competition, 105–10
vocal folds, xii, 4, 46, 59, 61, 68, 71, 73, 85, 118, 226, 252
vocal learning. See social learning of vocalization
voice box. See larynx
volcanism, 36, 50
vowels, 74, 89, 90, 328
Voyager satellites, 294
W
wafer ash, 93–94
Wagner, Richard, 230
walruses, 63
Walton, Mary, 343, 347
warblers, 262
water mites, 127–28
water temperature and density, 91
water voles, 61
Watlington, Francis, 292–95, 308, 317
wattlebirds, 181, 187
WE ACT for Environmental Justice, 342–43, 347
weasels, 61
Wehea, 286–87, 288
western gerygones, 132
Western Ghats, 111
wetas, 40
whales, 291–98. See also specific species
conservation, 294
echolocation, 68, 69, 295–96, 297, 300–305
evolution, 68–69, 71
hearing range, 30
negative effects of noise on, 90–91, 307–14
physical environment’s role on sound, 90, 91
populations, 295, 297–98, 304
vocalization (song), 71, 90, 134, 253, 255, 291–94, 295–97, 300–301, 303–4, 314, 317–18
vocal learning, 153, 163–65
whale watching, 298–99, 302–3, 313–14
whaling, 294–95, 312
wheat, 11, 51
Where Song Began (Low), 187–88
whipbirds, 164–65, 182
whistles (whistling), 68, 71, 88, 89, 151, 174, 209
white-cheeked honeyeaters, 181
white-crowned sparrows, 146–52, 154–61, 163–64, 166, 169–70, 327–28, 331
Whitehouse, Andrew, 183
white noise, 231
white-spectacled bulbuls, 175
white supremacism, 130–31
white-throated sparrows, 150–51, 155–56
white-winged crossbills, 84
whithorn, 240
wildflowers, 115, 143–45, 146
wildlife trade, 189–90
willie wagtails, 181–82
wind instruments, 207–8, 240–41. See also oboes; Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments
wind noise, 83–84, 86–87
wind speeds, 83
wings. See insect wings
Wolfe, Julia, 257
wolf spiders, 94, 101
wolves, 74, 165, 281
womb and hearing, 9–10
woodcreepers, 89
woodlands, 51
woodpeckers, 57, 116, 175–76
woodrats, 101
World War II, 12, 217, 293
World Wildlife Fund, 246
worms, 44, 45, 46, 166
wrens, 87, 123, 179, 183, 265
written music notation, 169, 214
X
Xakriabá, Célia, 282
Xeno-canto, 149
Y
yellow-rumped caciques, 158, 160
yellow-tailed black cockatoos, 181–82
Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, 366
Young People’s Chorus of New York City, 225
Yulman, Nick, 366–67
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Haskell’s work integrates scientific, literary, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. His 2017 book The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal for Outstanding Nature Writing. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.
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