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Mighty-Mouse
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 Posted - 2005/07/22 : 21:51:35
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Moessingen (Germany), July 18 (DPA) Birds have learnt to imitate the ring tones of the omnipresent mobile phones, say German ornithologists.
"The birds have an uncanny ability to mimic these ring tones. This has picked up in tandem with the boom in mobile phone ownership," Richard Schneider of the NABU bird conservation centre near the university city of Tuebingen here said.
Jackdaws, starlings and jays were the best mimics, Schneider said adding that even practiced birdwatchers were being fooled by the birds.
One reason for the phenomenon was that these birds were increasingly common in the urban environment, even the relatively shy jay, he said. "There is food and an increasing amount of green space in modern cities."
The birds were simply adapting to their environment in imitating human sounds in what he termed an "evolutionary playground".
Many of the more common ring tones are themselves imitations of bird calls, so the birds are in some instances mimicking another species.
Mobile phone users who have ring tones from pop music will, however, not find themselves reaching for their phones in error when a bird calls. The birds cannot imitate these complex melodies, only the simpler ring tones.
http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/07/18/18dpa.shtml
Use an MP3 ringtone, save the birds.
And our minds... darn nokia theme.
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is
not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.
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Posted - 2005/07/22 : 22:15:10
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Posted - 2005/07/23 : 21:34:13
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Originally posted by DjTriquatra:
BA DING DING DA DING DING DA DA DA, BOOM!
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