Animal Communication & Bioacoustics
📋 What it is
Bioacoustics studies the sounds animals make and hear — many use pitches and signals humans can't perceive.
🗣️ Coach says
Bioacoustics is the science of ANIMAL sound. Animals use sound to find food, warn of danger and talk to each other — and many hear pitches we can't. Dogs hear far higher than we do; some whales "sing" for hours across whole oceans. Studying these sounds tells us how animals live.
🧠 Memory hook
Bioacoustics = the study of animal sound. Many animals hear pitches humans can't.
😂 Giggle
Why was the thunder sound always in trouble?
It kept making a scene in the soundscape!
😲 Whoa!
Some whale songs are so low and powerful they travel hundreds of kilometres underwater — a message across an entire ocean, sung in sound.
✅ Quick check: What does the science of "bioacoustics" study?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
The sounds animals make and hear — how they use sound to communicate, navigate and survive.
Bioacoustics is the study of sound in living animals.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Think of an animal sound you know — is it a warning, a call for a mate, or "I'm over here"? Sound has a job.