Primary Research

• Field Recording, ANIMALS?
• Movements?

I‘ve always been attracted to nature and animals, also animals’ documentary is one of my favourite.

I’m always thinking about are there any ways or methods to recognise different ages of different animals thought their sounds while I’m watching those animal category documentaries.

Fortunately, I had a experience in Africa for 7 months. I was doing volunteer works in Tanzania and Kenya, during that period, I found out that different generations of animals’ movements frequencies are different. For instance, younger animals tend to have more irregular and scrambled movements and adults’ movement are more regular or on propose. Such as the leopard as same as us, the human, the new born leopard are still during the exploration stage, their bodies have lots of turnover and leapt out motions except the suckling outside the instinct. By contrast, the adults, they are used to laying on the ground and sleeping during a day except if they have to getting up and hunting.

• Vocalisations?

About vocalisation to wild animals, you can say it’s more similar to humans in some ways. No matter it’s the roar, the howl the chirp or whatever. The sounds made by the younger animals become more despicable and harsher, the adults have lower and threatening sound, and the elders usually make you feel powerless.