Elizabeth von Muggenthaler is a bioacoustician, a scientist that studies natural sound, in the air, underwater and seismically. She is president of Fauna Communications Research Institute, www.animalvoice.com, and former chair of the Acoustical Society of America, American Institute of Physics North Carolina Chapter, which covers the Southeast. She is the first to investigate the infrasonic (below) and ultrasonic (above) human hearing range communication of dozens of animals. Von Muggenthaler was invited to the American Institute of Physics international acoustics conference for her design of equipment capable of real-time computer analysis and storage of ultrasonic and infrasonic signals.
Elizabeth has an interdisciplinary and creative approach to research. Paleontologists, marine biologists, and zoologists helped determine that the Sumatran rhino (the most critically endangered rhino) sing like whales because they may be genetically related. After recording over 200 species that have infrasonic and ultrasonic vocalizations, many sound and look like whale under analysis. There may be such a thing as an “ancestral song” of the planet. Interviews with 50 experts in human medicine, veterinary medicine, biology, genetics, paleontology, and acoustics and over 3000 veterinary, human medical, and acoustic scientific journals and books, allowed Elizabeth to solve the mystery of why cats purr. Felines that purr are healing themselves; indeed all cats that purr do so at pitches that correlate exactly to bio-mechanical stimulation vibration frequencies used in the human medical community for osteoporosis, fracture healing, muscle tendon and ligament repair, wound healing, pain relief, Chronic Pulmonary disease, and many other ailments.
Courtesy of Elizabeth von Muggenthaler's LinkedIn profile.