Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, City College of New York, and Macquarie Universität in Sydney Present New Findings
‘ 386/2016 from Nov 08, 2016
A new study indicates that the songs of some birds follow the same rules as human music. The study was done by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin, the City College of New York, and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. They found that these birds, which have particularly complex and large repertoires, strike a balance between complexity and regularity when singing. The findings were published in the prestigious Royal Society Open Science magazine.
The study was conducted on Australian pied butcherbirds (cractus nigrogularis), which according to Prof. ...
