Call of the Wild

Stuck in the city? Can’t drag yourself off the couch to visit nature? Call Paris, France’s, Association for the Protection of Wild Animals and Natural Inheritance hotline. For about 45 cents per minute, you can hear animals threatened by extinction: howling wolves, songs of the whales, and bleating Alpine sheep, among others. The hotline allows callers “to listen to nature as if you were there,” the Association said. (AP) ...This suggests maybe they should have a tape of a bleating Parisian.