A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune

291 点作者 Osiris30将近 5 年前

20 条评论

mhxion将近 5 年前

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>Watch the video at the bottom. It says:> 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.

vezycash将近 5 年前

Here's a bird singing pirate of Caribbean tune<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpR8BeLR_Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpR8BeLR_Q</a>Another singing Adam's family reunion tune<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_tPNYgy58" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_tPNYgy58</a>And finally Star wars Darth Vader tune<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoCi04Rxwg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoCi04Rxwg</a>

评论 #23738529 未加载

评论 #23738249 未加载

评论 #23739459 未加载

评论 #23738991 未加载

评论 #23739978 未加载

verytrivial将近 5 年前

<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!

评论 #23739494 未加载

marklacey将近 5 年前

I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale.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.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.

评论 #23738251 未加载

评论 #23738301 未加载

评论 #23739379 未加载

jojobas将近 5 年前

Related: lyrebirds passing on flute tunes long after the guy who played them died.<a href="https://www.chonday.com/lynibird18/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chonday.com/lynibird18/</a>

wodenokoto将近 5 年前

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.Back then I totally believed it, but I’ve grown skeptic, but it looks like it is not completely outlandish.

评论 #23738044 未加载

评论 #23737585 未加载

评论 #23751674 未加载

评论 #23738424 未加载

评论 #23737786 未加载

tinus_hn将近 5 年前

Next up: getting birds to sing your advertising jingles

评论 #23738048 未加载

henearkr将近 5 年前

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!

评论 #23737873 未加载

评论 #23737952 未加载

_spduchamp将近 5 年前

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>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>

评论 #23740089 未加载

Ericson2314将近 5 年前

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.

评论 #23739288 未加载

daodedickinson将近 5 年前

Never found a video of killdeer online that sounded anything like the killdeer at my home have sounded like the last 30 or so years.

评论 #23743555 未加载

Avshalom将近 5 年前

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>

评论 #23739299 未加载

snvzz将近 5 年前

These two phrases... to me they seem like the new one "answers" to the old one.Maybe it's something to do with it. They're happy they found a "continuation" to the previous phrase.

cvs268将近 5 年前

By now, birds must have developed a low opinion of us hoomans and our "cold-calling" techniques!We either post mating calls, the bird equivalent of "Singles in your area..." or post danger calls, the bird equivalent of trolling flamebait.I bet there's a market opportunity for a HN for Birds!

ericol将近 5 年前

To keep up with the current times, wouldn't it be better to call it a "meme" song?

评论 #23741725 未加载

joubert将近 5 年前

Tweet memetic.

makapuf将近 5 年前

So that's what you call a viral tweet.

评论 #23737335 未加载

评论 #23737520 未加载

yesenadam将近 5 年前

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.I've seen bottomless pages on sites, but they don't usually load a bunch of URLs like that in your history, do they?

评论 #23737282 未加载

评论 #23737324 未加载

评论 #23737263 未加载

评论 #23737817 未加载

评论 #23737728 未加载

unicornmama将近 5 年前

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.Gizmodo’s website is fucking stupid. Who comes up with this shit?

评论 #23737578 未加载

评论 #23737590 未加载

sunkenvicar将近 5 年前

Sparrows moved into the neighbourhood this year. We noticed their chirping is incredibly annoying. Turns out it’s the two-chirp version.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.