We are learning ever more about the complex communications that occur among other animals that are not primates. Now that we have a President who speaks in broken sentences we are learning that in the chickadee family there is a right way and wrong way to form your sentences. Maybe a Chestnut-backed Chickadee would make a better political leader?
Click for report in “Science” magazine about how birds structure their sentences and what happens if the bird talk is gibberish. Their tweets are better formed that some human tweets we have seen, yes?
Posted by: atowhee | July 27, 2017
BIRD TALK
Posted in birding, birds, birdsong, research | Tags: animal intelligence, Japanese Tit
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