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Message 1 of 4 (745974)
12-30-2014 1:20 PM


This is an interesting article! Scientists Discover That Drunk Birds Sing Like Drunks
The scientists used zebra finches. The finches long have been used as a model to study human vocal learning, or how people learn to communicate using language...The researcher was a scientist,Christopher Olson and his colleagues at Oregon Health and Science University .
NPR writes:
Listen to the audio, and you'll hear that the finches' song gets a bit quieter and just a little slurred, or as Olson puts it, "a bit less organized in their sound production" like a roommate calling from a bar to get a ride home.
In the future, Olson wants to find out whether alcohol affects not just how birds sing but how they learn new songs like a roommate partying so late he's still drunk in class the next morning.
That seems true. Around where I live, the birds sing pretty much the same songs...or patterns, anyway.
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12-30-2014 1:30 PM


Thread Moved from Is It Science? Forum
Thread moved here from the Is It Science? forum.
I put this in Is It Science by mistake, thus moved it back over here for another admin to critique and hopefully promote.
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12-31-2014 7:35 AM
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12-30-2014 1:20 PM


Unless there's something about this where opinions would break down along lines related to the creation/evolution debate, this seems better suited for Coffee House, or if there's some link to creation/evolution then it could go in Creation/Evolution In The News.

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12-31-2014 8:11 AM


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