The Animals Were Never Alone
a Choose Your Own Adventure Essay
by Maria Lepistö and the Animal Sound Society

You smile, but you don’t smile too much, just enough to encourage him to speak.

And he does.

“At the beginning, the heavy recording equipment was unsuitable for field recordings and the animals were recorded indoors, in zoos: Tierpark Berlin, Zoo Dresden, Zoo Halle, Zoo Münster, Zoo Leipzig, Zoopark Erfurt, Stuttgart Zoo, Tierpark Hagenbeck... Etcetera, etcetera.”

The walls in Karl's office are covered with wooden shelves. On the second floor, they are filled with plastic folders. If you want to know what are in the plastic folders, go to 12

If you want to speak with the founder of the Archive, Günter, go to 13

If you want to visit a zoo, go to 48

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