The Birds and the Bugs

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever listen to birds singing catchy little melodies and wonder - wait a second, do they know music theory? Can they sing in thirds and fifths? Half steps and whole steps? Do they have perfect pitch?

Amory and Ben fly into r/AskScience to explore the question of whether or not our feathered friends are, indeed, musical in the way we human animals think about the term.

And Ben turns to the subreddit for theories on why our windshields are no longer splattered with bugs.

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0:31.0	What are you giggling about?
0:33.0	I don't know, we haven't even started and I'm already.
0:36.0	I'm just in a mood.
0:39.0	So I have an animal story for you today, Ben.
0:43.0	Love it.
0:44.0	Although I've really been thinking of it as more of a music story, related to animals, perhaps.
0:52.0	Animals in music?
0:54.0	I mean, there's a lot of things I can do.
0:58.0	To not get too much play, but it might be related.
1:02.0	His name is Robin Hood, I'm ready.
1:04.0	Let's sing us some songs together.
1:06.0	All right.
1:07.0	Okay, so first I'm going to play you a little melody that I recorded on piano,
1:12.0	and I want you to just tell me if you recognize it.
1:28.0	I don't recognize it, but my favorite part of it and the thing that reminds me of something is that
1:33.0	Dinnnnn, like the little suspended,
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