Birdsong and City Noise
Here We Are
Shane Mauss
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Birds, animal communication, evolution, environmental pressures, and human impacts. This conversation was very much in the Here We Are wheelhouse which made for a loose, funny, and fascinating episode!
It was such a treat to talk with Associate Professor Elizabeth Derryberry in person at The University of Tennessee Knoxville https://eeb.utk.edu/people/elizabeth-derryberry/ . Her work on animal communication integrates behavioral and evolutionary ecology. We talked about how changes in city noise impact bird communication and what life in our modern world will mean for future migrations.
Professor Derryberry also works with the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis which has been working with our show to present more of their scholars and give listeners insights into what transdisciplinary approaches in mathematics and biology can mean for making a global impact. Check out their website to learn more http://www.nimbios.org/
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Shane has some very special announcements next week regarding live shows! Make sure to tune in for Henry Gee’s second appearance as we discuss what roles mass extinctions, the Triassic period, and the evolution of the anus had in shaping life as we know it.
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| 0:00.0 | Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear? We are misfits |
| 0:07.6 | grossed into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all. |
| 0:15.7 | It's immensely bizarre. Here we are. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast today. I'm back at the University of Tennessee, |
| 0:26.7 | Knoxville talking with Liz Dearyberry. Thank you so much for joining me today, Liz. |
| 0:34.1 | Thank you for having me. So first off, I guess tell a little bit we're going to be talking birds on this. |
| 0:41.7 | Yes, we will be talking about birds. |
| 0:43.7 | I have, let me get this out of my mind first, Dearyberry. Maybe the best last name that I've ever. |
| 0:52.7 | Do you get this a lot? I do get this a lot. It's people are fascinated by this name. |
| 0:57.0 | And it's helpful when you want people to remember you. Not so much when you don't. |
| 1:03.0 | Because it's because Dearyberry is not your husband's name. You were like, no, thank you. |
| 1:08.0 | No, no, no. I'm sticking with this. It's too memorable. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm surprised you didn't take your name. |
| 1:14.9 | You know, we actually talked about that. We had that conversation. |
| 1:18.6 | I want your name. Can I have your name? Sure. It's made up. That's why it's a fun name. |
| 1:23.8 | It's it's a made up name for brothers got together in Pennsylvania and they changed their name |
| 1:29.9 | from Darren Berger to Dearyberry. And so there's I know this probably in like the mid 1800s. |
| 1:37.8 | I love these brothers. Yeah. So all dairy berries are related. |
| 1:42.7 | Okay. That's amazing. All right. All right. Got that out of the way. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah, but awesome name. Maybe the best one on the planet. Thank you. |
| 1:52.5 | So tell everyone about your work and your background. |
| 1:56.7 | Yeah. So I'm an evolutionary biologist who studies bird behavior. And I really probably |
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