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Ripper the musk duck imitating a door slamming

A different musk duck mimicking a Pacific black duck

Ripper the musk duck saying 'you bloody fool'

A 'wheeze honk' call of a hippo

FRB repeater data sonification

Original Call of the Southern Yellow-naped Amazon Parrots

New Call of the Southern Yellow-Naped Amazon Parrots

CSIRAC in Australia plays music in 1950 or 1951.

CSIRAC plays Auld Lang Syne

CSIRAC plays The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond

CSIRAC plays Colonel Bogey

CSIRAC plays a scale

Wikie the orca is the first of her kind to learn and repeat recognisable human sounds. You can read more in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B paper "Imitation of novel conspecific and human speech sounds in the killer whale (Orcinus orca)."

Orca Repeating Human Words

North Pacific Right Whale 'Gunshot Singing' - 1

North Pacific Right Whale 'Gunshot Singing' - 2

If the dead could talk, they'd probably have a lot to say. Still, it's pretty darn tough when you can only make one sound and you've lost your tongue.

Under these unforgiving conditions, the 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy Nesyamun should be forgiven for merely grumbling: Eyyyyhhhhh.

After several millennia of not making a peep, that was the sound scientists heard when they 3D printed the mummy's vocal tract - an elongated groan somewhere between the vowels of bed and bad.

Nesyamun Mummy Vowel Sound

Credit: Fritz et al., Science, 2021 10.1126/sciadv.abe9510

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