Have you listened to your pond lately?

In a fascinating pice of research that's been published this week, it turns out that our ponds have a soundscape that's every bit as rich as that of a rainforest. University of Bristol researcher Jack Grenhalgh has released some video of his recordings.

On a BBC radio interview, he explained that the video above is a 3 am recording and most of the sound you can hear on it is made by water-boatmen rubbing their hard body parts. Other soundscapes are evident at other times of day. You can hear the interview from 20:30 here.

More recordings on Greenhalgh's Twitter stream. 

Article in the Times here (may be behind a paywall).

I wonder what our pond sound like?