Bird sense

Posted at 12:35 PM on June 3, 2009 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Science

Great discoveries in science (continued).

Scientists at Aberystwyth University in the UK "have found that male great tits in 20 UK towns and cities sang at a higher pitch to be heard above the man-made noise."

According to the BBC, researchers have also found that the city birds don't understand rural birds very well.

Fill in your own joke.

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Comments (3)

"Fill in your own joke."

"Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?"

Posted by Tyler | June 3, 2009 1:17 PM

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Okay, so the city birds have to be louder than traffic and jackhammers, but at least they don't have to listen for vegematic wind turbines chopping them up like their country cousins.

Posted by sm | June 3, 2009 4:54 PM

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Tyler FTW!

Posted by Joanna | June 3, 2009 5:32 PM

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