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October 5, 2008
Interesting Sounds of Nature
The Associated Press ran a story talking about a librarian in Utah trying to catalog many of the animal sounds found in the western U.S. At first browse, The Western Soundscape Archive seems quite intriguing and as a nice touch, the Flash used on the site seems to be of the accessible variety.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford.
''You get yourself in some strange situations,'' said Jeff Rice, a soft-spoken University of Utah research librarian who's trying to create the first comprehensive -- and free to the public -- archive of natural sounds in the West.
Posted by Kelly at October 5, 2008 9:13 PM