Madagascar dry forest sounds

Madagascar's dry forests are amazing biomes, full of weird flora and fauna. Huge baobabs tower over thorny scrub, dwarfing everything around them and creating a feeling of awe. In areas where the baobabs have been conserved along with the thick dry bush, walking around them feels like you're in a huge cathedral.
The wildlife of these dry forests is nothing short of unbelievable. Cryptic geckos and wonderfully-coloured chameleons abound. Many of the birds you can find here are endemics, as are most of the animals and even plants. The most striking creatures found here have to be the lemurs though. These primates evolved over millions of years to fill niches that would normally be taken by completely different species. Mouse lemurs (smallest primates in the world), sportive lemurs, sifakas, dwarf, brown and many other lemur species call these forests home.
The soundscape is fairly weird too. It's not too lush or intense by any means. During the day it can be eerily quiet. There are soft swells at dawn and dusk, with a few bird species calling here and there. Night time is quite understated but fascinating, as you can hear in this recording.
The distance between calling individuals is not small which means getting a balanced soundscape can be quite a challenge. If you do manage to get away from particularly loud creatures, everything will seem quiet and distant.
It's in this apparently desolate soundscape that you can find beautiful detail. Listen for long enough and you'll start noticing little insect calls here and there. The raspy voice of a distant Madagascar ibis is barely perceptible. Leaves rustling and soft wind may sound like distant calls too. Then an unmistakable owl call (probably a White browed owl) can clearly be heard, with others responding in the distance. Lemur calls abound - probably sportive, dwarf and Sifaka. Some of these species might be unknown to science or even undescribed.
Recorded in the dry forests of Western Madagascar with Zoom F6 and 4x Lom mikroUsi Pro microphones as quad tree ears. Enjoying the videos I upload on here? Feel free to support me by:
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[@GeorgeVlad]

I was lucky enough to spend a month exploring Madagascar and this was my first foray into its wilderness. I will be uploading more content soon as I prepare for my next expedition while catching up on studio work and sleep. Please like, comment and share so I can reach more people with these beautiful soundscapes.

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[@benbishop1131]

Love this one. Very quiet but the sense of wide open space is awesome.

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks for listening Ben.

[@lukekayart]

Beautiful work. I often wonder how much I can’t hear and how my experience of hearing this soundscape would be different to someone else’s experience. Also nice write up in the description too.

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks Luke. Listening is a very underrated skill but that doesn't mean you have to be a sound recordist to hear detail or beauty. It takes a bit of practice but it's well worth it.

[@ListeningtoEarth]

Soothing

[@StrongandWomanly]

Very cool.

[@smae433]

Thank you, George. Another beauty.

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks for listening

[@mediakobo]

What a fascinating soundscape! I'm curious how you mixed the 4 microphones down to a stereo mix. Did you use a surround sound or spatial audio plugin?

[@GeorgeVlad]

I only used the front two channels in this soundscape. I record in quad for library purposes mainly but these recordings were so nice that I wanted to share them on TH-cam as well.

[@juice2090]

Looks like I missed a couple of really nice releases! Really like this one for falling asleep to!
I hope you and yours are doing well Gerorge.

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks Juice, more content from the dry forests of Madagascar coming soon.

[@oakandsage]

This is a wonderful soundscape. Combined with the beautiful silhouetted trees, for me this captures perfectly the combination of peace and excitement that I feel when sitting out at dawn and dusk to watch and listen to the world. Such an immersive recording!

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thank you, a very nice way to put it.

[@Rod-Wheeler]

Magnificent!

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks Rod.

[@sabinapinzan]

Beautiful recording George. And thank you so much for your description. It really helps to really dive into the experience and with a little imagination, it's as if we were there...

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks for listening, Sabina.

[@ricknuttall3550]

Fantastic recording, George!

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thanks for listening Rick.

[@wrighty-9197]

Amazing work man 👍👍

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thank you so much 😀

[@snipolar]

Congrats with great results from this amazing island of Africa! I'm impressed by the stillnes between the bursts of sound making u feel like beeing really alone in this world! Had this experience in the middle of Serengeti and at 79N in Svalbard in a small trappers hut. Really would like to know the setup on the F6, what gain and whatever creates such a fantastic mood!?

[@GeorgeVlad]

Thank you, as mentioned in the video description this was recorded with 4 lavs as quad tree ears. Can't remember what gain but that will of course change based on how loud the soundscape is where you're recording.