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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Rex Cocroft. Timecode In: 00:00:08. Timecode out: 00:02:03. Notes: Treehoppers; Membracidae; Insect communication. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Riverside ambi. Timecode In: 00:18:32. Timecode out: 00:19:26. Subject 3: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Riverside ambi. Timecode In: 00:22:42. Timecode out: 00:27:35. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Walking through water. Timecode In: 01:03:21. Timecode out: 01:05:14. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Rex Cocroft. Timecode In: 01:11:43. Timecode out: 01:46:01. Notes: Treehoppers; Membracidae; Insect communication. Subject 6: (Interview). Subtitle: Chung Ping Lin. Timecode In: 01:46:07. Timecode out: 01:49:18. Notes: Treehoppers, Membracidae; Insect communication. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Spaced Omni Stereo using MKH 20. Radio Expeditions Log Story: Tiputini/Rex Cocroft DAT # 12 Recorded: Nov. 01, 2005, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador Logged by: Carolyn Jensen RC = Rex Cocroft Lin = Chung Ping Lin AC = Alex Chadwick Carolyn = Carolyn Jensen Flawn = Flawn Williams Tuesday Nov 1 midmorning, split track 20s More Lago trail walk with Rex and Lin ***** Good riverside water ambi Trail walking sounds, occasional talk Long interview with Rex, plus a little with Lin Room tone trailside for Rex interview Ends 1:54:05 0:01:18 - RC: The insects like membracides and some others communicate with very different kinds of signal structures. Some of them use rhythmic patterns, but many of them use melodic patterns, where they use fairly pure frequencies where they slide up and down the frequency scale, and that's much more like what we experience in our own music, for example. So I think we respond to that very differently than we do to something that's going OOOOooooohhhhh, as opposed to something that's going shhhhhhh - shhhhhh - shhhhhhh. In the first case, it has a more haunting musical quality that we associate more with things we're used to appreciating for their beauty like bird song or whale song. 0:02:04 (LOGGING BREAK FROM HERE TO PICK UP BELOW, BUT THIS IS MOSTLY FOREST WALKING.) 0:27:33 - Flawn i.d. preceding river ambi roll. Through 28:40 - more trail pause, nothing useful. 32:40 - RC: Oh, that is beautiful. Yeah, it's a little leaf beetle. You could hardly imagine anything more brilliantly, iridescently blue. 32:54. Through 33:45 - more occasional trail pause, trail walk. 35:15 - FLAWN AMBIENCE REFERENCE TO DAT 11, PREVIOUS ROLL IN THIS SAME SECTION OF TRAIL. 36:18 - AC: That's beautiful. 36:30 - RC: Gorgeous. Well spotted. Small dragonfly, his body is about an inch and a half long, absolutely brilliant enamel yellow with black. 36:40 39:00 - More trail walk. 41:42 - AC: What is THAT thing? RC: It's an insect. As an entomologist, I'll go that far. (Chuckles) I think it might be another leaf-hopper or a plant-hopper nymph. But it's extremely¿fuzzy. I've never seen one like it. 42:27 (Can shorten w/internal trims not logged here). 45:00 - Michael Caine suspension bridge stand-up - 47:38. Through 50:00 - more chat at bridge, photo concession jokes. 50:30 - Camera trap detour. 57:27 - AC: I've been walking down the trail in the lead here - a mistake - and I just noticed this web when I was a few inches from it, and looked up the web, which is quite large, and there's this creature that built it, a spider that is, uh, it's body is more than an inch long, and the legs are a couple of inches on each side of that. It's got a kind of a dark back, a yellow speckled belly, and enormous jaws. The web is one of the most beautiful I've seen; it's a kind of spiral designs, very delicately put together. Each strand holds tiny little beads of moisture so you can see it. It's a couple of feet across, at least, that's the main part of the web. It's ... (Notes truncated)
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- Cataloged
- 12 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 9 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 12 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman