Do birds cough or sneeze?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Birds have a lot going on. They fly, chirp, sing, make nests, lay eggs. But can they cough or sneeze? We asked biologist Imogene Cancellare to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s flying around in your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help quack the case. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:15.2	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Weggle.
0:19.9	Um.
0:22.1	I love Frog and Toad.
0:25.9	You know, the beloved children's book series by Arnold Lobel that follows the zany adventures
0:30.6	and adorable friendship of two anthropomorphic amphibians?
0:34.7	I've been reading it since I was a kid.
0:37.3	But... But, but, but, but, I have big
0:41.0	news to share. Big news. I recently got cast in my local production of a year with frog and
0:50.3	toad. I'm going to be one of the birds. They play the narrators and sing songs and wear fun costumes and...
0:59.0	And...
1:00.0	Wait. Oh no. I think I feel a cold coming on.
1:06.0	Oh, no.
1:15.2	I can't play one of the birds if I have a cold.
1:19.0	Wait, can I?
1:20.7	Can birds cough and sneeze?
1:23.3	I have to find out.
1:27.5	So yes, birds do get respiratory infections.
1:31.0	My name is Imaging Cancelari, and I am a conservation biologist.
1:35.5	Those respiratory infections do have symptoms that sound really similar to like human
1:40.9	weasing or sneezing, a little bit of a cough because they do have a trachea that is similar to ours.
1:47.5	And at least in like the farming world, like if you have chickens, if a bird would get sick,
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