Nonhuman animal culture is demonstrably tied to landscape structure

Evidence

These authors have found that the acoustic repertoire of populations of small size was related to the dimension of the male population size (Fig. 1.14). For the first time, how culture in nonhuman organisms is strictly connected with the structure of a landscape has been demonstrated. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Landscape-structure shaping nonhuman culture resonates against the reader’s ‘culture is human’ assumptions and colonial land frameworks. — connects to: Hunting and post horns encoded opposite directional relationships to landscape — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 168; Plant communities mirror the cultural displacement of their peoples — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 957

Broader Connections

• Hunting and post horns encoded opposite directional relationships to landscape #exemplifies (0.82) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 168
• Plant communities mirror the cultural displacement of their peoples #corroborates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 957