ZOO IN THE HOME.
BROADCASTING LION’S ROAR. BEETLES’ WHISPERS. LONDON, Aug. S. After having made tests with portable apparatus,, a .British broadcasting company is arranging to broadcast the noises of animals and. birds from the Zoo. ’
“The voices of the hyena, the kookaburra and the sea-lion are easv to transmit, because they are easily persuaded to make noises,” an official told the special representative of the Sun; ‘ ‘but the ordinary lion suffers from an artistic temperament, and we may have to put a succulent nigger in the cage to get him to roar.” During a broadcast lecture about beetles, listeners-in will be able to hear beetles talk. Two beetles will be placed in a small box beside a super-sensitive microphone. The lecturer will scratch the box, upon which the beetles will criss-cross their antennae, the sound of which will be transmitted to an ordinary microphone for broadcasting.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 7
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