Many research groups have been working for years on algorithms to make sense of animal sounds. Project Ceti, for example, has been decoding the click trains of sperm whales and the songs of humpbacks.

You can find lots of different animals right here in the UK. Do you have a favourite animal? Try and match the sounds to the correct animals in the activity below.

But mimicking the sounds of animals isn't as easy as woofing or purring. [Marko purring] Though he can do that, too. Picking the right sounds involves carefully examining both objects and surfaces.