Hello^^

My favorites animals are Crows and Snakes^^ (all sort of snakes^^)

My friends say I’ve strange taste…but those animals are so…soooo cute!!

I didnt’ listen to the lesson yet, but the photographs on the Lesson notes are so Kawai!!!

Good night everyone!

Hi Jpod team
why can’t I leave messenges on the comments page?
It does not seem to appear everytime I submit my comments.
HELP…

I have been unable so far to download the mp3, although I’m sure somebodies are hard at work on the problem as I type this. Anyway, I was able to get a sense of this lesson from the pdf. And a gorgeous pdf it is, too.

Animal sounds in nature is one of my favorite enjoyments. If I had time (and money) for another hobby, recording these sounds would certainly be it. When I still worked in the neighboring town of Tsukuba and commuted by bicycle, I bought a belt-drive Bridgestone bicycle to avoid the noisy chain and be able to hear the frogs singing in the rice paddies on my evening ride home. From about mid-April to mid-May is when one can hear them. It starts with a species that sings a very peaceful, relaxing click-click々々, and then when it gets a bit warmer, another species joins in with its louder, more typical frog croaks. Then throughout the summer one can hear the bull frogs, although their call is not nearly so pretty. And yes, bullfrogs were introduced from the US along with crayfish.

There is no greater animal than the penguin.

The sloth (two or three toed…take your pick) is the animal I aspire to as my goal for reincarnation. It moves with the speed of drying paint, effortlessly sleeps at any time of night or day and only comes down from the tree to take its once weekly bathroom break…could life get sweeter than that?

Loved the PDF by the way.

Nick

Darnit, I love animal cries (鳴き声, nakigoe) so much, I just can’t refrain from commenting on the two uguisu (bush warbler) links posted by JPod101 at the top of this thread. The first is the one that sounds so beautiful to us, and maybe to female bush warblers as well, but is saber rattling to other males telling them, “This is my turf; don’t come trolling around here.” The second recording sounds to me, rank amateur that I am, like the experimental babbling of a juvenile warbler. I say that because it’s mixing two different uguisu calls out of context, and neither is as proficient as in the adult. The one call, recognizable from the first, is the mating/territorial call. The other is the alternating back and forth between a high and a low note, about a musical 5th apart from each other. This call is known as 鶯の谷渡り (uguisu no tani watari; bush warbler crossing a valley), a call I’ve heard them make when they are alarmed.

i really like this jcc. can’t wait for the next installment. can anyone confirm that the shape of the taiyaki is in the shape of the sea bream of is it any shape of regular fish?

Piculumさん、thanks for the tips! Will pass it along, and we’ll make sure to let everyone where we heard it.

Digitaljoさん、should be coming at you soon, and will look into your inquiry.

Sophieさん、very good point!

Bobさん、as always, a pleasure hearing from you! Only thing better, is when you drop in! Thanks again! Very interesting info! You are a man skilled in many trades!

Danielさん、have a bad experience with a penguin??

Nickさん、too funny! Did you know the sloth is quite the swimmer! I always heard they couldn’t, but apparently their short hind legs are quite good for this.

Jasonさん、interesting!とても興味深いコメントです。

Robさん、another fine animal!

Saraさん、wow, you and Bob really know your stuff!

Nazさん、hmm…we’re trying to figure it out. Keep us posted if the problem continues. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Orlinaさん、not at all! Crows are some of the smartest animals! Some of them over here actually use cars to crack nuts by timing the traffic lights! They place the nut down during a red light, then when it turns green the moving cars crack the nut, and when the light turns red again and the cars stop, they swoop in to get the nut inside! They even move the nuts if the cars miss.

Nah, I don’t have anything agaist penguins. Just wondering how they made the top of the list. Plus, I was mostly referring to Opus, who himself had a complex about the purpose of penguins in the universe.

-Daniel B

Nateさん、very good point!

Danielさん、it seems to be an animal free-for-all.

Orlinaさん、
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_crows_apes.html

Wow!
No wonder they were considered as wise companions of the Greek Gods.
In latin ‘Cras’ means Tomorrow, and it sounds like the ‘cawing’ of Crows, so they were considered as good fortune-teller messenger of Gods ^__^

Which contrast with the way occidental people view them nowadays. When in China and Japan they represent filial fidelity[right?](because they feed the parents, which other bird don’t), in Europe, Crows are really bad-considered and associated with death.

Can’t understand why -_-’

Sophieさん,

I love magpie too, in fact just in front of my window they is a huge tree, and when I was younger (don’t know why I don’t do it anymore) i used to watch them through binoculars.
I like it when they decide to annoy a cat. One of them comes close to the cat, and when it tries to catch it, the bird fly away. And then it sound like they are laughing at the cat. They can go on like that for hours (and me watching them, drawing them…)

Poor cat! But it’s too funny

I think the only bird who annoy me it’s the pigeon…just because I see to much of them here in Paris -_-’