Reading about the amazing Australian lyrebird and its mimicking ability, including the way it passes on "recorded" sounds from generatiion to generation...
In 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song which resembled flute sounds in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales. After much detective work by Fenton, it was discovered that in the 1930s, a flute player living on a farm adjoining the park used to play tunes near his pet lyrebird. The lyrebird adopted the tunes into his repertoire, and retained them after release into the park. Neville Fenton forwarded a tape of his recording to Norman Robinson. Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time, Robinson filtered out one of the tunes and put it on the phonograph for the purposes of analysis. The song represents a modified version of two popular tunes in the 1930s: "The Keel Row" and "Mosquito's Dance". Musicologist
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:39 (nine years ago)
very curious how accurate it is, and how accurately the tune is preserved down the avian generations
― ogmor, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:15 (nine years ago)
Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time
this is so exciting
― imago, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:18 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyeqo1qRVg
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 8 August 2016 19:58 (nine years ago)
One of my favorite 80s giallo movies
― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 August 2016 21:27 (nine years ago)
Ha, yes.
― emil.y, Monday, 8 August 2016 22:10 (nine years ago)
Scientists fight crab for mysterious purple orb discovered in California deep
― write sed fread (Leee), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:03 (nine years ago)
My favorite Call of Cthulhu module
― doeth represent the square of squares squaredly (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:48 (nine years ago)
I got a million of em
sorry
― doeth represent the square of squares squaredly (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:49 (nine years ago)
https://twitter.com/Strange_Animals/status/764080287365988352
"The bloodybelly comb jelly produces rainbow lights from its beating cilia, propelling it through the water."
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:56 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/pZufqqv.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:58 (nine years ago)
^^ http://laughingsquid.com/a-gorgeous-purple-stubby-squid-with-big-googly-eyes-that-appear-to-be-painted-onto-his-face/
― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:32 (nine years ago)
couldn't put it better myself.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:43 (nine years ago)
Sea potatoes wash up en masse on Cornish beach
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 19 August 2016 15:45 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/r7XzsqM.jpg
just learned of the existence of giant clams today!
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:54 (nine years ago)
i presume you are down with geoducks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGH1MzT4FEpronounced "gooey duck"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 16:47 (nine years ago)
yes
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 17:57 (nine years ago)
He's probably eaten geoduck.
― write sed fread (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)
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― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)
yes, hence "i presume"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:22 (nine years ago)
geoduck is okay; kinda rubbery but that kind of a criticism is like complaining ice cream is too coldgiant clam tastes like concentrated ocean
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:27 (nine years ago)
sorry: meant to say "good giant clam sashimi tastes like concentrated ocean"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:29 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/vT1vxjA.jpg
http://pipa.neaq.org/2015/09/2015-expedition-crabs-your-favorite.html
― 龜, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:43 (nine years ago)
i like the two that look like they've already been deep fried.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)
https://youtu.be/XSQ_ajl3cvE
― rm -rf / (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2016 03:34 (nine years ago)
Whoa. Junior Varsity Basketball Fox.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 23 September 2016 06:44 (nine years ago)
more proof of god's sense of humor
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:04 (nine years ago)
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/08/23/sea-urchins-pull-themselves-inside-out-to-be-reborn/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=urchins&utm_content=KQEDScience&utm_campaign=DL_urchins
The larval urchin drifts in the ocean currents as a member of the plankton for a month or longer. How does it change from a tiny drifter the size of a grain of sand to a bottom-dwelling ball of spines?Halfway through its voyage out to sea, “something very interesting happens,” Hodin says. “They do a little trick to try to make that transformation from being a larva to being a juvenile happen faster.” They begin to grow the juvenile urchin form — a miniature adult — inside of the larva’s body.
Halfway through its voyage out to sea, “something very interesting happens,” Hodin says. “They do a little trick to try to make that transformation from being a larva to being a juvenile happen faster.” They begin to grow the juvenile urchin form — a miniature adult — inside of the larva’s body.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:53 (nine years ago)
When it reaches the rocky shore, the juvenile urchin bursts out.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:54 (nine years ago)
a koan in action
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)
mirror spiders!
― aloof club (doo dah), Sunday, 2 October 2016 01:43 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZbQTFM6.gif
sea robins
― 龜, Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:55 (nine years ago)
I can see why they're called that. They really evoke the pudgy jollyness of the bird.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Monday, 3 October 2016 11:46 (nine years ago)
my second time posting this link but i do think it's worth spreadinghttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2106331-fish-recorded-singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:27 (nine years ago)
that's amazing
― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)
the friend that sent it to me promptly wrote them to ask if they could share more samples which they didn't respond to but i love her for trying
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:47 (nine years ago)
also because not everyone knows about trapdoor spiders i guesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAb5iLFZ12E
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)
We have trapdoor spiders all over our garden here in australia too. Their tunnels are so neat.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:08 (nine years ago)
Also xp love the fish dawn chorus!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:09 (nine years ago)
Prefer Boards of Canada's "Dawn Chorus" tbh.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:17 (nine years ago)
rude
― clouds, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strap-toothed_whale
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:00 (nine years ago)
There don't seem to be any good, illustrative pictures of it, which is frustrating.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)
Found its rookie card
http://i65.tinypic.com/2eduqok.jpg
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 October 2016 04:47 (nine years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Cococrb2.jpg
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:13 (nine years ago)
Land crabs are freaky!
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)
Is that a coconut crab? Those things are right out of a nightmare.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 October 2016 12:30 (nine years ago)
Speaking of giant arthropods, see an Australian huntsman spider carrying a mouse up a wall: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=196316&subid=7133936&CMP=ema_632
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:19 (nine years ago)
Always a little sad when a vertebrate loses out to an invertebrate, IMO.
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)
"yes, i'm having problems with mice in my house. i was wondering if you have anything that could help?""well, he have these huntsman spiders...""you know what, mice are fine. i'm good."
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:33 (nine years ago)