The children of franceinfo junior play explorers this summer: Friday July 15, they discover bio-acoustics, the science of listening to animals with a specialist, Nicolas Mathevon.
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Listening to and studying the cries of animals and their language is the job of the guest of the day from franceinfo junior. Nicolas Mathevon, researcher in bio-acoustics at the University of Saint-Etienne. He has just returned from a mission to Mozambique to study hippopotamuses. Bio-acoustician Nicolas Mathevon answers children’s questions.
At the microphone of the show, Ilyes first asks him why he is trying to “learning to talk to animals”. The opportunity for the guest of the day to explain that his job is rather to “understanding what they say to each other, deciphering the languages of animals”. Moktar is concerned about the safety of the scientists conducting this research in the field: “How do you not get attacked by animals?” Rania wonders how the researcher does “to translate what they say to each other”.
On this page, re-listen in full to this franceinfo junior summer program devoted to the language of animals.