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  • From: Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Ape sounds to be available for cell phones
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:56:53 -0400

Cellphone ringtones will soon go ape
July 8, 2003
http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=269&fArticleId=184031

London: Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ringtones for cellphone users, the British Library said here yesterday.

Among the sounds available are the thuds of the male gorilla beating its chest to impress females and scare off competitors, the grunting of various species of pig and raucous bird calls from the Amazon jungle.

The library claims to have the world's largest animal sound archive and is now making its 100 000 recordings available to two companies that will in turn put some of them on the internet by the end of the week.

Users can allocate different calls to different callers - perhaps the gentle cooing of a dove for calls from a girl- or boyfriend, the grunting of a pig from the bank manager and an outraged squawk from the wife or husband.

The global market in downloading ringtones is put at $4 billion a year.

Richard Ranft, the curator of the wildlife section at the British Library Sound Archive, is pushing British birdsong.

"Many bird sounds are proven to be relaxing - we provide a lot of doctors' surgeries with bird calls for their waiting rooms for exactly that reason," he said.

"They can also be very evocative: the fiery-necked nightjar song is tremendously beautiful and serene."



  • [monkeywire] Ape sounds to be available for cell phones, Carrie McLaren, 07/18/2003

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