For instance, recent research by Liana Zanette of Western University, London, Ontario, and colleagues has shown that tape recordings of human voices startle a whole host of large African mammals, from warthogs to giraffes.
Body camera footage and security tapes show the two at the Kuykendall Stadium track meet.
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Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2026
After airing, the recording of the historic performance was placed in the BBC archives and subsequently erased, as the BBC commonly (and now notoriously) wiped and reused tapes at the time.
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