![]() ![]() IRA FLATOW: It’s an animal in the wild, huh? You stepped on your catch tail.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: So, yeah no. –and just going back and forth like that. Two sounds.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: All right, well I can imitate the sound for you if you want.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: OK, so sounds something like this– IRA FLATOW: All right, you have another sound for us?ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, let’s go for it. IRA FLATOW: I’m calling Stephen Colbert right up and telling him to get rid of that. You know the fearsome caw or screech? I was looking for these sounds on YouTube, but I was looking in the comments and someone said in the comments like, “And this is why you don’t hear these sounds.” Why you don’t hear the bald eagle sound in movies. This is actually the sound the bald eagle makes.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, so that sound you hear in movies and stuff, that’s usually a red-tailed hawk or something like that. You probably wouldn’t find this bird in your backyard. So I know it’s not, but I’m going to guess it anyhow.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, that’s a good guess. IRA FLATOW: Wow, I’m thinking of my bird feeder in my backyard. All right, I’m not going to give you multiple choice for this next one.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: But this next one is a bird, and can you guess which bird makes this call? They stuck it down in the water, and that is the exact sound the Weddell seal makes, so.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, C is correct. When I was in Antarctica 1979 I watched people investigating Weddell seals under the ice with a microphone. I thought you took it off of my cassette tape that I took. IRA FLATOW: You know, you could not have picked a better sound for my first sound, because I know exactly what that is. So is that A, a giant golden-crowned flying fox bat, B, is it a Baffin Bay narwhal, C, Weddell seal, or is that a clip from Pink Floyd’s album, Animals? IRA FLATOW: All right, let’s play clip number one.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: OK. So I’ll play it and give you a multiple choice guess after it plays. I know I’m joining by Skype, but I promise this isn’t those loopy sounds that plays when you’re connecting with someone. Yeah, so this first animal sounds like a synthesizer or a Gameboy. Let’s play a little short version of the quiz right now. This is Science Friday from WNYC Studios. IRA FLATOW: All right, I’m going to get ready by telling everybody I’m Ira Flatow. Stuff like the katydid, which is this small green insect– it’s hard to find those since they’re so small. I found a hyena, but it was off in the distance. And the bald eagle that we ended up going with was from a zoo in Germany. ![]() So I was just googling bald eagle in Street View. We tried to find these animals in Street View. And it takes you– when you guess it correctly or incorrectly, it takes you to their habitat. ![]() So you’ll be hopping around the globe a lot in this. But with this animal sounds quiz, we picked the animals from all over the world. And we have another cool project we did with them where we made a tour of NASA’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Can you describe how you built it, and what’s the quiz like?ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, so Voyager is this editorial platform in Google Earth, and they work with different publishers to make these cool sciencey interactive stories using their 3D imagery in Street View. IRA FLATOW: And you built this as part of Google Earth’s Voyager platform. So we made a quiz to see if you can match that animal sound with an animal. You were there.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah, so animals have an incredible diversity in how they look, but they also have an incredible diversity in how they sound, and how they look might not match up what they’re call is. IRA FLATOW: OK, let’s talk about– why animal sounds? How did you come up with this idea?ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Yeah so the idea came from our Events Producer, Diana Montano, who made a version of this for our last Sci Fri trivia night, which you co-hosted. Hi, Daniel.ĭANIEL PETERSCHMIDT: Hey, Ira. Sci Fri Digital Producer Daniel Peterschmidt and quiz creator is here to talk about our Google Earth animal sound quiz. But how good are you at identifying the sound of your favorite animal? To test your knowledge, we’ve put together an interactive animal sound quiz that you can play. ![]() And we know you can’t pass up a good, charismatic creature story. IRA FLATOW: Case you missed it, this Tuesday was World Wildlife Day. ![]()
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