Tuesday, March 28, 2006

birds sing with accents

researchers have discovered that female whipbirds sing the same basic songs, but with regional accents.
Female birds in general rarely sing, so that find itself is unusual. The determination is doubly noteworthy because the scientists observed that the males of this species sing with no accent whatsoever ... In terms of accents, he said that geographical variations, or dialects, are found in other songbirds, whales, seals and primates.

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