Just listen to the chirping of an ostrich in the egg

Just listen to the chirping of an ostrich in the egg
Just listen to the chirping of an ostrich in the egg
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Cornell University has made the result of decades of work available online: it has uploaded nearly 150,000 audio materials to the Internet in freely searchable and listenable form. The focus is on birds, but there are also files in which we can listen to whales, elephants or even frogs. The materials containing the data of 9,000 species total more than ten terabytes and are 7,513 hours long, making Cornell the world's largest collection of animal sounds, which is now freely accessible to anyone, reads the university's Tumblr page.

"This is one of the largest research and also data preservation projects that Cornell Lab has ever carried out," curator Greg Budney proudly announced the online debut. we couldn't do it before," he added.

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The files are on the Macaulay Library website, and the institute's director said theirs is the largest and oldest collection in the world - and now the most accessible. "We're working on improving the search functionality and allowing users to upload material to the archive themselves," said Mike Webster. "quite" of the sounds: for example, that of the youngest bird, which is the chirping of an ostrich chick still in the egg before/during hatching, or the best John Coltraine impersonator, which a Madagascar lemur called Indri can compete for with their cheerful good-morning calls to their family members.

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