The sounds of animals walking, chewing food and panting, for example, are almost always recorded by human “Foley artists” in a sound studio far away from the filming location, often weeks or ...

Get the why and how behind the sounds of the water boatman, sperm whales, and other noisy animals. The water boatman can make quite a racket with its anatomy. Photograph by Ingo Arndt, Minden ...

Wildlife documentaries like the BBC's recent series, Planet Earth III, are renowned for offering breathtaking images of animals in their natural habitats. You'd be forgiven for thinking these ...

While the images we see in nature documentaries are filmed on location, many of the animal sounds are recorded and added later. Here's how they're made, writes Damien Pollard.