The Animal Communication Project. This streamlined website is very accessible to the lay reader, while it also has enough references to scientific studies to appeal to teachers, researchers, and students of animal communication and biology in general. The site contains the full-text of the (now out-of-print) book, The Language of Animals, in addition to "Research News" and some multimedia features. The type of animal communication this website refers to is not that between animals and humans, but among animals. Visitors with pet dogs or cats might enjoy the section on "Cats and Dogs" that explains how lions communicate, and why the domesticated dog barks, but other members of the dog family, such as wolves and coyotes, do not. (Source: The Scout Report) Click2Visit

 

The Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee. Animal bioacoustics is the study of sound in non-human animals. It includes acoustic communication, sound production mechanisms, auditory anatomy and function, sonar, acoustic tracking, and the effects of human-made and environmental noise on animals. Each discipline within the scope of bioacoustics has opened up exciting new areas of inquiry. Bioacousticians work in a variety of positions -- as professors at universities, as consultants working in environmental compliance, as industrial researchers, as engineers. Many are employed in research at public and private institutions. Many more work at private companies, particularly (in the U.S.) on environmental compliance and mitigation issues. (Source: Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Click2Visit

The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) recognizes the vital connection between places and their soundscapes and features audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the western United States. Begun in November of 2007, the archive is housed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library and features recordings contributed by volunteers, state and federal agencies, and conservation groups. The website continues to grow and currently includes representative sounds of more than 570 different Western bird species, all of the region's frogs and toads, dozens of reptiles and more than 100 different types of mammals. You will also find many lush, ambient recordings. The archive is supported in part by a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Source: The Scout Report) Click2Visit