Original journal: <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30771-5" rel="nofollow">https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...</a><p>Watch the video at the bottom. It says:<p>> A hypothesis suggests that, female birds may habituate to the common songs over time, and that drives the male bird to adopt novel songs to maintain female's interest.
Here's a bird singing pirate of Caribbean tune<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpR8BeLR_Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpR8BeLR_Q</a><p>Another singing Adam's family reunion tune<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_tPNYgy58" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_tPNYgy58</a><p>And finally Star wars Darth Vader tune<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoCi04Rxwg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoCi04Rxwg</a>
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_level_geolocator" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_level_geolocator</a> -- How they get rough but scientifically useful tracking information from a device small enough to attach to a sparrow leg!
I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale.<p>Every night around midnight it would start singing. It would loop through maybe 8 songs. Some of them sounded very much like the local environment. For example one song was pretty much identical to sirens that I would periodically hear.<p>It would last for an hour or two each night. I don’t know where the bird went the rest of the year. That was almost ten years ago and I still miss falling asleep to that.
Related: lyrebirds passing on flute tunes long after the guy who played them died.<p><a href="https://www.chonday.com/lynibird18/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chonday.com/lynibird18/</a>
Back before the iPhone when Nokia was the defacto phone, there were news stories that birds had started to chime the Nokia ringtone or the Nokia sms chime.<p>Back then I totally believed it, but I’ve grown skeptic, but it looks like it is not completely outlandish.
I wonder, if I play this video during a walk in the nearby mountain in Japan, will the song be picked up by the local species? The scientists would have a new mystery on their hands lol!
You can train starlings to speak.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI</a><p>This is the medium of Brian D Collier's brilliant art project Teach the Starlings <a href="http://teachstarlings.societyrne.net/html/intro.htm" rel="nofollow">http://teachstarlings.societyrne.net/html/intro.htm</a>
I have no idea what's "doublet" or "triplet" about the two bird songs. If they just mean the number of notes, it almost seems like they got the labeling backwards.
Oh I've seen this movie before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)</a>
These two phrases... to me they seem like the new one "answers" to the old one.<p>Maybe it's something to do with it. They're happy they found a "continuation" to the previous phrase.
By now, birds must have developed a low opinion of us hoomans and our "cold-calling" techniques!<p>We either post mating calls, the bird equivalent of "Singles in your area..." or post danger calls, the bird equivalent of trolling flamebait.<p>I bet there's a market opportunity for a HN for Birds!
Maybe this is common, but I just noticed it - I scrolled down a bit on the website, and suddenly it took 5 or 6 Back button clicks to come back here. Each mini-article loads a new URL.. Looks like you're on the same page but seems like you're not. There's something I really don't like about that! If you went right to the bottom, if there is one, it might take dozens of Back clicks to get off the page. Which effectively disables your back button.<p>I've seen bottomless pages on sites, but they don't usually load a bunch of URLs like that in your history, do they?
When I try to read the article on mobile, an unstoppable video fills up 1/3 of my screen. The video is unrelated to the article and has no obvious UX to stop or dismiss.<p>Gizmodo’s website is fucking stupid. Who comes up with this shit?
Sparrows moved into the neighbourhood this year. We noticed their chirping is incredibly annoying. Turns out it’s the two-chirp version.<p>For us this sound doesn’t fade into the background because it sounds synthetic or man made. About as annoying as a back up beeper on a truck.