Oh, certainly - near the entire science of ecology revolves around the idea, it seems at times. Release a coeurl into the woods and you'll find the jackals starve, unable to keep pace with the superior hunter; let a housecat into the garden and the singing of birds disappears.

[He gets the idea that ecology is not your specialty, Verstael, but that means something terribly different in the extent of your knowledge compared to his.]

I simply dislike the idea of attaching the cause of the Sound to something that has never been witnessed to happen. I would sooner lay the blame to some action of our own, or something of our reality but not our star, as Omega and Midgardsomr are.