Preview of Attenborough's Wonder of Song
Preview: Season 41 Episode 13 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
David Attenborough presents seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature.
David Attenborough presents seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature and explores the significance of these songs in the lives of their species.
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Preview of Attenborough's Wonder of Song
Preview: Season 41 Episode 13 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
David Attenborough presents seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature and explores the significance of these songs in the lives of their species.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I've recorded many songs of the natural world over the years.
(whale whistles) But these songs are far more complicated than we could possibly be imagined.
It was the ability to take recorded sound, and then turn it into a visual picture, that enabled us to analyze and reveal its full complexity.
- That really forces us to reconsider what we think of as song.
(birds chirping)
Footage Proves Female Songbirds Can Sing
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It was once thought that only male songbirds were capable of song. (2m 33s)
Male Lyrebird Manipulates Female Into Mating
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Up to now, scientists had thought that song was an honest signal from the male. (2m 42s)
Young David Attenborough Records First Lemur Sounds
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In 1960, David Attenborough captured the first-ever audio of Madagascar’s largest lemur. (2m 34s)
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