Voices of the Wild: The Surprising Lexicon of Animal Sounds
14 December 2025

Voices of the Wild: The Surprising Lexicon of Animal Sounds

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From a cat’s trill and chatter to a ferret’s duke, alpaca clicks, and otter choruses with hiccups, this episode explores the formal, onomatopoeic vocabulary humans have built for animal noises. We scan how scientists name and interpret these sounds, what they reveal about intent and meaning, and how advances in bioacoustics and AI may unlock even deeper secrets of interspecies communication.


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