Jeffrey T. Reed
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86 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Jeffrey T. Reed’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We recently put a tiny ARU on the first wild wolf ever and learned that she likes to vocalize roughly half as much as a typical American speaks in a given day.
And here's just a sampling of the sounds they make.
They make a lot more of those than we ever knew.
They're close-range contact calls.
So remember the alpha female taking a nap by her den?
Twenty-five days later, her pup stepped outside the den, raised its tiny three-inch snout and howled beside mom.
With the help of AI, we're learning more about why wolves howl, including that your dog might be barking at that emergency vehicle because it matches the pitch of a wolf pup.
Now look, I don't know if AI will ultimately decode animal communication.
Wolfish is not the same thing as English, but I do know this, there has to be animals to decode.
If your body represented the total weight of all the world's land mammals today,
your right forearm would be what's left of the wild ones.
The rest of your body is us, our livestock and our pets.
As for carnivores, things like lions, tigers and wolves, it's less than my pinky.
The challenge we collectively face as real humans, not artificial ones, goes far beyond individual opinions on wild wolves.
It's about the future of wildness itself for hunter like me and non-hunter alike.
So we're going to close with a group chorus howl.
No practice, and the next time you're at a party, I want you to down a shot of whiskey and try this.
Now, here's a tip.
Use the vowel oo as in boot.
Wait till I count to three, and I'm going to tune up your voices with this recently rediscovered recording from 1995.
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