Ralf11 Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 12 hours ago, AudioDoctor said: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/birds-may-make-music-but-they-lack-rhythm-31935 actually, the current thinking (see the parrot video) is that rhythm in birds is related to vocal mimicry (at least at higher levels of mimicry - I'm sure some guy is trying to get NIH to fund a study on cat birds right now) Gloggle the key words and you can see what is already published AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 58 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: BTW would claiming that all post be bop jazz has been in a way a Bird influenced music be too risky statement.? Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker. G. Giddins. 1987. Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 you want to compare a single species vs. an entire Class? I think we will have to pick birds tho - just on the aerial dances alone Link to comment
Popular Post Ralf11 Posted December 17, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted December 17, 2018 TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A foul-mouthed parrot, who was kicked out of an animal sanctuary for swearing too much, is using technology to cause even more trouble. The Times of London reports Rocco, an African grey, has been using Amazon Alexa to shop online while his owner was away. His owner, Marion Wishnewski told the newspaper she was shocked to find that her Amazon account suddenly had pending orders for various snacks, including watermelon and ice cream and also a kettle. “I have to check the shopping list when I come in from work and cancel all the items he's ordered,” Wischnewski told The Daily Mail. Rocco was rescued by the National Animal Welfare Trust (NAWT) earlier this year after being found as a stray. His foul mouth got him removed from the sanctuary, but Wischnewski, who works there, adopted him. She said Rocco's love for Alexa goes beyond material things. He also uses the device to listen to his favorite music (Kings of Leon). "I’ve come home before and he has romantic music playing," Wischnewski said. "He loves to dance and has the sweetest personality.and romantic tunes." African grey parrots (Psittacus) are particularly noted for their advanced cognitive abilities and their ability to mimic speech. christopher3393, sphinxsix and Hugo9000 1 1 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 interesting that it ordered food -- some additional testing might be able to show some cognitive links I've often thought it would be fun to use technology to link parrots to each other, as well as dolphins to other dolphins... Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Cetaceans are more talkative. For an interesting book on one particular parrot, try: Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg. I am not gonna weigh in on the veracity of her claims, or whether she was railroaded by the good ol' boyz, etc. etc. There are also a couple of interesting books on ravens by Bernd Heinrich (who studied bumblebees when he was in Calif.) sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/dancing-cockatoo-named-snowball-learned-14-dance-moves-trnd/index.html Snowball can invent his own dance moves it would be fun, and likely instructive, to hook up a bunch of parrots with audio & video links on the internet - let them communicate with each other ("peck to talk?) and monitor sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/65891-parrot-dances-spontaneously.html sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 not yet - but they do sometimes mimic the acoustic emanations of the hairless monkeys Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 to grow feathers you need to start with scales Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Actually, it has been "explained" in the sense of making an adaptive story (tho not experimentally verified). Louder sounds attract some female birds (and similarly frogs), and can repel competitor males, presumably enhancing mating success of the male. It is not alway to the adv. of the male to have mated female able to hear other males either... In other species, call complexity is more important. In fact, one anthropologists and psychologists learned about biology they began to speculate on human art as being essentially mate advertising. There are some suggestive correlates, including age of greatest output being related to ages most likely to breed, etc. etc. Also, some birds seem to prefer vinyl... sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Nope - feathers are superior. Same for bird lungs & likely brains. It pays to pick your stem reptiles carefully... sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
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