If we listen closely, a bird’s call reflects what humans have done to its landscape, and a forest soundscape tells us about habitat health. Listen to the third episode of Wild Frequencies to learn how scientists use bioacoustics to understand animals in a landscape altered by humans.

Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India, where wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.

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Guests: TR Shankar Raman, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation Divya Mudappa, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation Vijay Ramesh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Priyanka Hariharan, ecologist, University of Florida K.S. Gopi Sundar, conservation biologist

Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar Recordings from Valparai by Vijay Ramesh at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Project Dhvani, Meghana Srivathsa, Akshay Anand, Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa. Recordings of sarus crane calls by Suhridam Roy.