People with no training were able to reliably detect animal vocalisations in natural soundscapes, with detections increasing in equatorial habitats, around sunrise and sunset, and during wetter periods—patterns that mirror global biodiversity and animal activity cycles.
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Spectro-temporal modulation templates for human perception of animal vocalisations in natural soundscapesa) - PubMed
The human ability to hear animal vocalisations in natural settings was studied by asking naive participants to detect vocalisations in 11 520 samples from a large database of soundscapes varying in terms of habitat (latitude), moment of the day, and precipitation…