EEB386H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bird Vocalization, White Noise, Mammalogy
14 Apr 2017
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He never named it but was very attached to it. When it died, he had a funeral, and he wrote a requiem for it. Found that starling was singing part of composition and he wrote it down: starling got only one note wrong, copied mozart very well. Vocal imitation isn"t trait that a lot of vertebrates are capable of. Named him moko (mauri name for reptile ) Kept repeating my name is moko to him. Extremely high fidelity copying: if you have inflection in something you say, they can pick it up. Song is often territorial: wing flapping, started doing some song then got into wing flap (= male aggressive behaviour) Bird calls: song is distinctive from calls, a lot of primates have a wide diversity of complex calls but don"t do a lot of vocal learning. Bats: social bats live in colonies, rear offspring in colonies, 2 types of experiments:
