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Welcome to Creature Feature Production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of Many Parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology.

And today on the show, it's a listeners questions episode.

I love to answer your questions.

It always sends me on a really interesting research trip. I go to the library and by library, I mean, I sit in my pajamas and go on to Google Scholar and Elsevier, etc. Make sure I am answering your questions with as much accuracy as possible.

So if you have a question and you're like, hey, wait a minute, I want that answered by Katie.

You can send it to me at creature, featurepot at gmail.com.

Any questions about evolutionary biology, your pets, aminals.

I will do my best to answer them as an armchair zoologist.

All right, so let's get right into it.

Hi, Katie.

Let me start by saying that death bloat corpse parade is actually a really good pretend metal band name.

I have a question about bird sounds.

Some birds can mimic or have calls that sound almost mechanical or robotic rather than melodic.

Does that have something to do with the mechanics of how birds produce sound?

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