mobile menagerie

Slowly waking up this morning, as usual listening to the Today programme, I heard an article about the "British Library, which is planning to release its library of animal noises as mobile phone ringtones. I think this will be delightful and cacophonous. They have released 40 initially, at 4 quid each and have a further 10,000 they can release. You need a phone which can play polyphonic ringtones. Virtually every animal, snakes, lions, gorillas and lots of birds. I might even consider buying some of these.
They raised the delightful idea of associating certain ringtones with various people... full article on BBC news website and also on Newsround, the excellent BBC childrens news programme.