{"id":9560,"date":"2016-02-29T20:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2016-02-29T20:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:48:04","slug":"songs-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/02\/29\/songs-in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs in the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two postings about <a href=\"\/journal\/2016\/02\/23\/twisted-sister\/\">heavy metal bands<\/a> and <a href=\"\/journal\/2016\/02\/26\/what-if-this-time-is-different\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the journal is overdue for some nature.  The video below is all about the whale-like song of the lemurs, so <b>turn on the volume<\/b> before playing it and ignore the picture &#8211; it&#8217;s just Audrey, our guide and me walking through the forest.  The sound of the indri lemurs is unlike anything else and still gives me chills when I listen to it, remembering what it was like to be roaming the forest with families of lemurs calling out all around us. Recorded <a href=\"\/journal\/2014\/09\/10\/all-the-lemurs\/\">September 2014 in Andasibe National Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1x7RcqPPbI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"img-main\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The indri lemur&#8217;s song carries for several miles through the treetops.  Supposedly if you record them singing on an iPhone and then replay it later they will sing back to you, but I wouldn&#8217;t know anything about that&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two postings about heavy metal bands and Donald Trump, the journal is overdue for some nature. The video below is all about the whale-like song of the lemurs, so turn on the volume before playing it and ignore the picture &#8211; it&#8217;s just Audrey, our guide and me walking through the forest. The sound &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/02\/29\/songs-in-the-forest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Songs in the Forest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,22,43],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2014-world-tour","tag-madagascar","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}