This is absolutely incredible:
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I’d heard the rumours, but watching it was a day-maker….
“It’s the American Dream—because you have to be asleep to believe it.” — George Carlin
but it would probably drive my dogs crazy.
Retiring Mainframe maven, active curmudgeon, poet, writer.
This to me is the most amazing part. The lyrebirds apparently pass songs/sounds down from one generation to the next. Folklorists refer to this in humans as oral tradition:
“In 1969, Neville Fenton, an Australian park ranger, recorded a lyrebird singing a song that sounded very much like a flute, a flute being played by a human. After much sleuthing, Mr. Fenton discovered that 30 years earlier, a farmer/flute player had lived near the park and played tunes to his pet lyrebird. That lyrebird downloaded the songs, then was allowed to live wild in the park.
“Phrases from those flute songs apparently became part of the local lyrebird songbook. A scholar named Norman Robinson figured out that the songs wild lyrebirds were singing in 1969 were modified versions of two popular tunes from the 1930s, “The Keel Row” and “Mosquito’s Dance.”
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows,or with both~FDouglas
They are cheep.
…bark and growl? And they’re obviously aggressive; could be very interesting at the very least.
Might be a new sheriff in town…
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows,or with both~FDouglas