The world of animal sound is always moving, drifting, ebbing and flowing, but forming an intense and aesthetic concert in various ecologies. I felt that it was a healing sound before I learned its factual truth. Another way in which animal sounds are healing is the infectious sound of their laughter. ‘Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct,’ wrote D H Lawrence in The White Peacock (1911). The disturbing animal sounds are fiercer tutors to our carnal beings.