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[VIDEO] The World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Just Went Online

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15-10-2015 | 10:45

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[VIDEO] The World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Just Went Online

The Macaulay Library at Cornell University, home of the world's largest and oldest collection of nature recordings, just uploaded the whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. 9,000 species from around the world are documented in 150,000 audio recordings, totaling 10 terabytes and a run time of 7,513 hours.

The library has been building its holdings since 1929, collecting recordings from 75% of the world's bird, and a growing collection of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. It took the archivists a dozen years to digitize the whole archive.

This represents just a small part of the estimated 8.7 million species living on earth, and still, it's far away the best catalogue depicting what life on earth sounds like.

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