Natural sounds are sounds produced by natural sources in their normal soundscape. It is a category whose definition is open for discussion, see the section below. The category includes animal sounds, from the chirruping of crickets to the vocalizations of mammals. They would also include the sounds of other natural phenomena, such as water sounds; for example, the sound of rain falling on the ground or on water, the sound of a waterfall, a rushing river, waves lapping or rolling gravel on a shoreline; and wind sounds, such as the murmur of wind rustling the leaves in trees, the howling during a gale and the roar of a whirlwind. Natural elements include water, wind, thunder, the crack of large pieces of ice shearing from a glacier or iceberg, and the crackle of a forest fire. Such sounds may have contributed to the development of prehistoric music, and have important cultural references nowadays.
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