ANIMAL MUSICIANS

text Pedro Alcalde / Illustrations by Julio Antonio Blasco / Published in Chile, France, Italy, Japan...

From Gibbons singing to the sunrise to whales humming across the oceans, nature is full of fantastic music. Most animals use their voices, others play their bodies like instruments, and some of them make sounds that humans need machines to pick up. To highlight this diversity, we’ve compiled a list of 14 animal musicians, some of which make music that seems almost… philharmonic.