Project Ideas
By Andrew (06/10/13 19:33:45)
Interspecies Collaboration Week 4

I have a few ideas I can’t decide between for my interspecies collaboration final project. The first one was that I wanted to go around Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, and Big Bear Lake in search for dead animals. As I adventured around these various cities I would look for and collect the bodies of these animals and try to determine their death and then use the bodies of the animals to make people aware of many things they do wrong to animals that harm them and sometimes bring them to an early death. It’s pretty much the Sarah McLaughlin commercial without the sad music and depressing pictures. I’m not really sure how I want to represent this but that’s the start of my first idea. My second idea mainly has to do with sounds and hearing for animals. My mom is the veterinarian at the zoo in Big Bear and I visit her a lot so I was thinking of doing a project with the inhabitants of the Big Bear Animal Park. I first want to go around to 5-8 different species of animals and record their sounds for two hours each. Then I want to take those recordings and play them to a different species and record their reactions. For example, at the zoo right now there are two Bald Eagles named Alaska and Valentine. I want to sit next to their cage and record the sounds of their movements, screeching, eating, and any other noises that they make during the two hours. I then want to take this two hour recording and play it loud next to the pack of wolves to observe how they react to the sounds of the bald eagles if at all. During the playback for the pack of wolves I will video record the wolves’ reactions to the Bald Eagles. For this auditory project I would like to record and playback during various times of the day to get a range of reactions from the animals. I hope to observe many predatorial reactions and maybe even some violent or loving displays towards the sounds that the species of animals hear.


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