quote: | Originally posted by Lira
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Given their brains, I'm sure it's not as complex as we take it to be. Probably the reason why we can't "get it" is because we aren't birds ourselves |
Oh yeah, absolutely. I have no illusions that their vocabulary is anything like that of a human language.
What I do find interesting though, is that the same types of birds will sound very, very different in different locations. We have tame Grey Butcherbirds here, for example, and we know the sounds they make quite well, since they're here quite a bit. But when we travel up to Fraser Island (about 300km north) they sound completely different. Some similar sounds here and there (alarm calls, angry sounds) but for the most part it's like a different language. I always find it fascinating
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