WELCOME January 21, 2002 Issue

Listen . . . you may be surprised

Kim Shippey

AROUND THIS TIME each year, I fly southeast from my home in Massachusetts to roam the gentle green hills of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.

Not, as my friends tease me, in order to escape the rigors of a New England winter, but to delight once again in the call of the African ibis and the red-breasted cuckoo, and in the soft thud of summer rain on fields of kikuyu grass and sugar cane.

After a year of city living, it's good to listen—truly listen—to the sounds of birds, animals, insects, frogs, wind, and water. These are sounds that many makers of wildlife films suggest are not good enough in themselves. They actually commission music to obliterate nature's sounds, suspecting that their audiences prefer it that way.

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