Do Animals Grieve for the Dead? - Bernie Krause

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Dr_Bernie_Krause_The_Great_Animal_Orchestra

Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, argues that animals may posses a degree of emotional depth by playing a sorrowful call from a male beaver after its entire family was killed by humans. "The world's really crying out to us for help," he says of habitat destruction.

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Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a given habitat.

Learn about unusual soundscapes and their relevance to preserving natural sounds worldwide. Biophony--the notion that all sounds in undisturbed natural habitats fit into unique niches--will be used to illustrate the ways in which animals taught humans to dance and sing. - California Academy of Sciences

Since 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruta Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.

Dr. Krause was Scientific Director (appointed by NOAA) of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985) using processed feeding sounds of the same species to lure him to the ocean. Through his company, Wild Sanctuary, he has recorded over 50 natural soundscape CDs, and creates interactive environmental sound sculpture commissions for museums and other public spaces throughout the world.

Utilizing proprietary delivery technology, his sound sculpture commissions can be heard at the American Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Chicago Science Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (near Mystic, CT), the California Academy of Sciences, the Flint River Center in Albany, Georgia, Natural World Museum (SF), and five new installations at the World Financial Center (NYC opening 6 October 2006). Krause is currently commissioned to prepare a series of tropical and sub-tropical rainforest installations for the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008.

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[WellIAMScottish]

My cat disappeared just over two months ago. Of course I searched far and wide for her all this time, but when I saw a fox hanging out in my backyard a few days after her disappearance, I knew what probably happened to her. I was utterly devastated, but more devastated was her sister kitty who searched for her almost constantly for a week, and than sank into a deep depression. For 3 weeks she would not eat, would not want attention. I would hear her crying at night.

OF COURSE animals grieve!

[seamoremonster]

And dogs are empathic. They respond to our moods and they grieve in our absence.  They are true companions.

[ManOfTheWoods100]

I love how he says "wounded beaver". Can animals feel pain? Yes. Will they make noises because of it? Yes. I know for a fact how beavers act and sound, and this actually sounds just like a baby beaver (don't believe me look it up). Animals don't greive, but when they are hurt they will make noises. This is either a wounded whining beaver, or a recording of a baby beaver making noises.

[xander7ful]

They had to kill a beaver family for "resource management"? You tell me who is more human: the F&W guys who indiscriminately blew up an animal habitat or the beaver who grieved.

[crpederson]

fish and wildlife people are just as clueless as the rest of humanity as far as caring for other wild beings go. Sometimes, they could care less about what they are really doing to animals. They have the same mentality as cops do.

[joequirk]

@karioka2 Often animals with long vulnerable childhoods evolve monogamy. I made a video about it called "Is Monogamy Natural?"

[karioka2]

@joequirk why?

[karioka2]

@WellIAMScottish you are assuming, .. animals cant talk to tell u exactly... but good assumption..

[AmoroZero]

humans are the only animal that cries sensitive tears. All animals can cry, but humans are the only ones who put their feelings in tears. But ALL animals have feelings and broken along I guess, they have just as much grief and hatred and jealousy that we humans have. Thats what I think.

[joequirk]

Beaver males are monogamous. They commit to one female and family.

[mitzi303]

I find it incredibly sad humans even find the need to have this fuckin debate. we are so far up our own asses i doubt we will ever be able to find our way out !!!

[opti95]

@seamoremonster but kitty's have the best facial expressions