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Today you'll learn about the dreams of birds, why sound pollution in the oceans could be killing whales and how

fruit-eating birds are doing the work to save tropical forests. Let's get into it.

Today is World Environment Day, a celebration of our natural world that has been going on for over 50 years

The celebration the natural world's been going on for longer than all

To celebrate I'm going to take you into the dreams of birds.

Uh, yeah, that sounds like the start of a Christopher Nolan film.

You should hear the birds when they're doing a score by Hansa.

But you're honestly not too far off, a team of researchers at the University of Buenos

Serres has literally gotten inside the mind of a bird called the Kiskadee to see what happens when it sleeps.

It turns out they could actually reproduce the song this little bird sings in its dreams.

Okay, so how? How did they do this?

Well it starts with an organ that is unique to birds called the C rings.

It's a little bundle of nerves and muscles at the base of the trachea that allows the bird to sing.

So this particular research team has been studying the Kiskadee for years. It's a beautiful yellow and brown bird known for its distinct three syllable call which sounds a lot like its name.

Okay, so like, like Kiskadee or kiskadee kiss kis kitty kis kis I'm okay no I can't do this I am not a birdologist

so I couldn't I don't I haven't heard it's it's called but that's the idea yes okay for this study the

team implanted electromyography electrodes in the birds to monitor electrical

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