The ‘Wild Frequencies’ of Indian wildlife revealed by bioacoustics

Mongabay Newscast

Mongabay newswire editor Shreya Dasgupta joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail her new three-part miniseries, Wild Frequencies, produced in collaboration with the Mongabay India bureau.

Dasgupta details her journey with Mongabay-India senior digital editor Kartik Chandramouli. They travel the country speaking with researchers, listening and studying to the sounds produced by bats, Asian elephants, sarus cranes, wolves and many other animals. The emerging field for which this study is named, bioacoustics, is helping researchers lay foundational knowledge crucial for conservation measures.

Listen to the miniseries on the ‘Everything Environment’ podcast or by clicking the links below:

Wild Frequencies: Find Them

Wild Frequencies: Know Them

Wild Frequencies: Us and Them

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Image Credit: An Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus). Image by sunnyjosef via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Time Codes

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(00:00) Enter: Bioacoustics

(02:51) What Is the New 'Newswire' Service at Mongabay?

(05:50) What is Wild Frequencies?

(08:45) Going a Little Batty

(17:59) The Complicated Lives of Sarus Cranes

(21:44) Animal 'Societies' We Don't Normally Hear In Cities

(30:07) Credits