Anchored by the exceptional narration of Loki's Tom Hiddleston, new audio technologies and techniques are utilized by a dedicated team of wildlife biologists & other scientific researchers to document a variety of fascinating means of intraspecies (and interspecies) communication. Much (but by no means all) of this is driven by the mating season and its striking, bizarre acts to attract the opposite gender and reproduce. You'll learn and observe how crocs hear and feel the sounds of their offspring, how male spiders pluck musical vibrations on females' webbing, how male koala bears use their 2 sets of vocal chords to create bass bellows indicative of an animal 20 times their size, and the songs sung by snow leopards in order to call to one another in the treacherous mountains of the Himalayas. Each of the dozen episodes of this miniseries ends with a few minutes "Behind the Sounds," highlighting the lengths the crew go to in order to capture such never-before-heard audio (for example, the equivalent of 4 Everest climbs in 4 years so as to record the elusive snow leopard). Absolutely incredible show, and you do owe it to your entire family to experience the whole thing!
Review of Earthsounds
