Racheal Devine                                                 about 150 words

INTD: Science Writing

rmd20@geneseo.edu

Whisper of the Wild

In “Whisper of the Wild” by Kim Tingley he describes his trip to do research about acoustic data, the natural sound in Denali. He tells how human have changed the sounds of the world because of all of the noise we make from machines and such. These block out the noise of the raindrops and creatures which if we could cancel out the sounds of human nad take data we could be able to tell a healthy ecosystem from an unhealthy. He also tells how more recently natural sound is being seen as something we should be protecting. The sounds of humans can have a big impact on ecosystems, he uses examples such as whales fleeing sonar. This makes me wonder what other things this effects in this way, what other animals flee because if the sounds of planes or helicopters and does it change how they act and does it have an effect on their surroundings as well.