Animal Musicalities

The sounds you make, and the sounds that all animals make, can be simply heard but when really understood become even more complex and nuanced. This book explores animal sound and song through a variety of insights and perspectives that look into fictional behavior reasons for why animals make sounds to making a case for art being something that arose from nature—and the interplay between this and more. Moreover, the book explores the history of documenting animal voices by shedding light on how this facet of behavior was an integral part of taxonomy and classification since the days of Darwin and beyond to categorize groups of animals and humans. This book documents the history and efforts behind it. It makes a case for how without animals SOUNDS, the would wouldn’t even LOOK the same way it does. It explores the interplay between what we consider science and humanities.