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A Musical Key to Earth’s Wild Music

Here are five animals, each with the music it makes or inspires, and each with a bit of its story, selected from Earth’s Wild Music.

lambeosaurus’s

diplodocus

Hank Lentfer · Listen to these Humpback Whale Blows And Tail Lobs Plus Trumpet CounterPoint

. Did you hear that? What in god’s name?

Sound courtesy of  Hank Lentfer

Do you know why the sapsucker taps that rhythm?. Brumdiddydiddydiddy. Deet. Deet.Brumdiddydiddydiddy. Deet. Deet

“I don’t know. I give up

“So the pounding creates heat energy. Right? Like nails get hot when they are pounded. It’s a bad fever when your brain heats up. So the sapsucker evolved to count time between riffs to let his brain cool down.

Sound courtesy of Hank Lentfer

Sound courtesy of Hank Lentfer

whistle-tick, mumble—I will nudge you into the sweet feathers of my chest and sing to you a whistling song. Until you fly from me forever, I will keep you safe and defend you steadfastly.

Catapult magazine · Listen to Rachelle McCabe playing Sibelius, Impromptu #5