Frog talk in Taiwan

Yesterday, I met another French guy living in Taiwan, Yannick Dauby. A regular reader of my blog, he gave me a CD of sounds he recorded in Taiwan as a gift for my 5 years of tea blogging. I made some tea outside, so that we, 2 French men in Taiwan, could talk of frogs and tea in Taiwan! Literally!

Yannick's CD contains the songs of 16 different kinds of frog species (out of 32 present in Taiwan). You can hear a sampling here. The documentation that comes with the CD is very well done. Lots of pictures, drawings and information about each frog.

I've listened to the whole CD while drinking tea at home later on and I found it a nice way to recreate a natural outside environment if you can't go out. Frogs are tea farmers' friends. Farmer Zhou Hsien Bang told me he creates favorable conditions for different frogs, so that they will help him eat the insects in his plantation. So, these are sounds that farmers are happy to hear in the plantation.

To help Yannick distribute his CD, I've accepted to add it to my selection. His work is very interesting. He's recording all kinds of sounds in Taiwan. I wish him success in doing what he loves most! (Note: Yannick also gave me a CD of sounds made by a frozen lake as the sun starts to melt its surface. Fascinating!)

Boire du thé d'Alishan en écoutant la rainette de Moltrecht (Rhacophorus moltrechti) que l'on entend si souvent par là-bas, du Baozhong avec la rainette de Taipei (Rhacophorus taipeianus) présente à Muzha et Pinglin, de l'Oriental Beauty avec les petites Miantian (Kurixalus idiootocus), etc... c'est maintenant possible avec ce CD de chants de grenouilles de Taiwan enregistrés par Yannick Dauby! Pour aider ce jeune français (marié, lui aussi, à une Taiwanaise), je l'ai ajouté à ma sélection pour ceux qui veulent associer l'expérience du thé à celle des sons de la nature (sans sortir de la maison).