"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song
Science and music YouTuber Benn Jordan has stored an image of a bird within a bird, before getting the bird to reproduce the image at an estimated rate of 2 megabytes per second.
Though parrots take all the popular glory for their ability to parrot back human speech, they are not the only species of bird capable of such astonishing mimicry.
“Starlings are accomplished mimics. They pick up sounds from other starlings and song birds but also from people and inanimate objects,” Washington State University wildlife ecologist Rod Sayler explains of the birds, which can produce whistles, rattles, pops, and even reproduce the sounds of dog barks and car horns.
“How and why starlings incorporate such an elaborate repertoire of sounds into their vocal behavior has been the subject of a lot of research, with no single answer."
In his latest video, Jordan set out to show just how capable of mimicry the starling is, and chose a pretty cool and novel way of doing it.
