00:00Listen to these two sounds, and think about which one you like better.
00:12So if you preferred that second sound, then it turns out that you agree with the song sparrow,
00:17which is the animal that actually produced those songs that you heard.
00:21I'm Logan James, and in a recent study, we wanted to know whether humans share the acoustic
00:26preferences that other animals have. So in order to do this, we collaborated with researchers at
00:32the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Yale and the University of Auckland,
00:36and we put together an online platform where participants could listen to two sounds and
00:41then tell us which one they liked more than the other. Then we could compare the preferences of
00:45the people in the study directly to the animals that produced these sounds from previous research.
00:50We found that overall, we do actually share many acoustic preferences with other animals.
00:56As another example, you can listen to this call from a frog.
01:02And if you're like the frog, and most participants in our study,
01:06you may have found that first call to be a little more interesting or a little more attractive than
01:10that second call. This call comes from the Tungura frog, which we studied down in Panama,
01:15and its call sounds, we call it a whine, followed by multiple chucks. And that first call had more
01:22chucks than that second call. And for some reason, we all find that more chucks makes the call sound a
01:27little bit better.
01:28So let's get started.
01:28So let's get started.
01:28Let's get started.
