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🗓️ 18 August 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. This is a bird called the Hermit Warbler. |
| 0:24.0 | This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Karen Kwan. |
| 0:30.0 | That's a bird called the hermit warbler. It freeds along the US West Coast. |
| 0:37.0 | They all kind of look the same. They have a cute little yellow head and a gray body. |
| 0:43.2 | Red furnace, a biostatistician at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. |
| 0:49.2 | Typically, birds sing the same one song within one region because the song attracts mates. |
| 0:56.3 | And different regions can have slightly different dialects of the song. |
| 1:00.3 | But what we also notice that there are some places that more exceptions to this rule, that some places there is more than one song in the same place. |
| 1:09.3 | And so we were curious why that would be the case. |
| 1:13.4 | To investigate, Furnas and his team recorded Hermannier songs, lots of them. |
| 1:19.2 | We had to go all over California. |
| 1:21.7 | So we went to a hundred different locations throughout the state |
| 1:24.8 | and all the different potential habitats of the species. The researchers |
| 1:29.6 | analyze all the Hermit Orpler songs they collected and discovered that the hermit |
| 1:34.6 | orpler doesn't just violate the usual one song per region rule they |
| 1:39.2 | positively demolish it. |
| 1:40.8 | Doing this over a period of 10 years, we found actually an amazing 35 different dialects across the state. |
| 1:48.6 | Here are just two examples of dialects. |
| 1:51.2 | Slow down for easier comparison. |
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