The Animals Were Never Alone a Choose Your Own Adventure Essay by Maria Lepistö and the Animal Sound Society
It is Thursday, August 11, 2011, and National Geographic has published an article stating that there are still 8.7 million species of animals waiting to be discovered, identified, described, categorized, conserved, translated and stored eternally on databases.
This is of course only a rough estimate; a linear regression whose source is unavailable due to a DNS failure, a straight line, tilted to the right, a reasonable study, according the Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft, Lucas Joppa, an inaccurate model of calculation, according to Dan Bebber.
“In order to formally categorize a new species”, Boris Worm explains, “we must compare the specimen to museum samples, analyze its DNA, and complete a huge amount of paperwork.”
The workload at the Animal Sound Archive is immense. There are so many animals, so many voices to record. Some species will never be recorded before they die out. Their voices fade out into the air and dissolve without ever leaving a trace. Karl hears them in his dreams, but when he wakes up, there is no evidence for their existence.
This is of course only a rough estimate; a linear regression whose source is unavailable due to a DNS failure, a straight line, tilted to the right, a reasonable study, according the Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft, Lucas Joppa, an inaccurate model of calculation, according to Dan Bebber.
“In order to formally categorize a new species”, Boris Worm explains, “we must compare the specimen to museum samples, analyze its DNA, and complete a huge amount of paperwork.”
The workload at the Animal Sound Archive is immense. There are so many animals, so many voices to record. Some species will never be recorded before they die out. Their voices fade out into the air and dissolve without ever leaving a trace. Karl hears them in his dreams, but when he wakes up, there is no evidence for their existence.
If you want to visit a fully automated recording station, go to 67
If you think that you are likely being recorded right now, but that it’s just a routine, and nobody will ever listen to the recording, because nobody actually cares what you are saying, go to 78
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