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🗓️ 2 August 2018
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0:37.2 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.0 | People speak thousands of languages in the world today, and same goes for the bird world. |
0:44.4 | Each bird species has effectively its own language. |
0:48.8 | Andy Radford, a professor of behavioral ecology at the University of Bristol. |
0:52.6 | And there might be similarities between some languages, just as there are in the human world, |
1:00.0 | and then there are other languages that sound extremely different, |
1:03.0 | even though they're conveying exactly the same meaning. |
1:06.0 | In fact, some birds are known to pick up on the language of other species. |
1:10.0 | In particular, they've learned to detect danger by eavesdropping on on the language of other species. In particular, they've learned to |
1:11.4 | detect danger by eavesdropping on the alarm calls of other birds. Radford and his colleagues |
1:16.8 | wanted to investigate how that learning occurs. So they first played an alarm call that Fairy Wrens, |
1:22.5 | an Australian bird, shouldn't be familiar with. A computer-generated alarm call, meant to mimic birds. |
1:29.7 | As expected, the unfamiliar sound had no effect on the fairy wrens. |
1:34.1 | But then the researchers paired the synthetic call with the chorus of alarm calls the wrens |
1:38.5 | would recognize. |
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