聆听世界：贾斯汀·安德森《荒野之歌》中的自然声景

Some of the best nature stories are told through soundscapes, finds Dhruti Shah Anderson starts in the Indian Himalayas, looking for a snow leopard to film. Snow leopards don’t possess a vibrating layer of fatty elasticated tissue, thus making them the only big cats that can’t roar. That doesn’t make them silent predators; locals describe their yowling vocalisations on ridges as “singing”. But while the noise travels further this way and their songs help the snow leopards to find each other, we still aren’t sure what they are saying. Book Wilderness Songs Justin Anderson Batsford Books HIS job as a wildlife film-maker has exposed Justin Anderson to exceptional scenes. …