Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: An Audio Field Guide [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] (Audio CD)

~ Louise H. Emmons (Author), Bret M. Whitney (Author), David L. Ross Jr. (Author)

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Many neotropical rainforest mammals are shy, cryptic, or nocturnal. Therefore it is often possible to detect their presence only through their distinctive vocalizations. This first audio guide to these mammal sounds--a companion to Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, Second Edition--features calls of 109 species or subspecies, including almost all species of primates and commonly encountered larger mammals.

Information on the behavioral context for each call and where it was recorded is included in an accompanying booklet, which also cites the relevant pages in the field guide.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Cornell Laboratory Of Ornithology (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938027409
• ISBN-13: 978-0938027409
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,613,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable and ambitious publication, March 16, 2000

By	James Remsen, Jr. (Lindenhurst, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology as a companion to a field guide, this remarkable two-CD set is unlike any other nature guide yet published. It is an audio guide to mammals, and only mammals, of the rainforests of the New World.

As the hot spots of the world's bioversity, rainforests have gotten lots of attention from naturalists and adventurous eco-tourists, who want to explore these green worlds for themselves. There have been countless field guides (both printed and audio) to birds in various parts of the New World tropics, but this audio guide exposes the voices of rainforest mammals, many of them retiring and rarely seen in the thick foliage, for study and appreciation.

The first disc is brief (about 40 minutes), but sound recordings of a lot of these mammals are not easily obtained. Over 50 species give voice to their unique sounds. Opossums snort and grunt, jaguars make a sound like someone sawing on a log, tapirs whistle like birds. There is even a recording of a river dolphin spouting, the sudden explosive noise almost out of place among the other jungle sounds.

The second disc, longer in length, features the most vocal of the rainforest mammals, the primates. Some of these produce sounds that could easily be mistaken for the sounds of other creatures. For example, some of the smaller monkeys, like the tamarins, produces squeaks and chitters that are surprisingly birdlike. The night monkey, calling after dark when it would probably never be seen, hoots exactly like an owl. The loudest of the rainforest monkeys, the howlers, produce roars of such intensity that they will literally frighten anyone who visits the rainforest but does not know that these are the sounds of harmless vegetarians.

"Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals" is off the beaten track, to be sure, but if you are traveling to the tropics anytime soon, I strongly recommend it. Even if you're not, I recommend it anyway. You haven't really lived until you've startled your neighbors with the loud, cackling chorus of the dusky titi monkey.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite CDs, June 22, 2006

By	Crazy Monkey - See all my reviews

This 2 CD set has sounds of 109 species, all of these species live in the rainforests of the New World. Disk 1 has a very large variety of mammal calls, some of these you wouldn't think would be made by that animal. For example, the Bush Dog makes a high squeaking sound. Other sounds you hear on this disk include: bats squeaking, squirrels chattering, anteaters snorting and screetching, etc. Disk 2 only has primate calls on it. The second disk also has some interesting sounds such as howler monkeys roaring, tamarins and marmosets chirping, night monkeys hooting, and much more.

You need to get this CD!