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A LTHOUGH the noises made by animals are *o*o among the most familiar sounds in Nature, they have seldom been the subject of serious biological or psychological study. The present work is an attempt to provide a clearer understanding of the significance of animal sounds than can be obtained by the perusal of an ordinary book. The publishers explain that a ‘sound-book’ of this type is the natural medium whereby text, picture and gramophone records form a natural unity in which the text comes to real life through the records and vice versa. Individual readers must judge, for themselves, how far this ambition has been fulfilled.
Animal Language
Described by Julian Huxley., recorded by Ludwig Koch and the Parlophone Company. Pp. xi + 62 + 31 plates. (London: Country Life, Ltd., 1938.) With 2 Records, 21s. net.
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Animal Language. Nature 143, 314 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143314a0
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