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.
Is It Science?
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