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Title: Wrens teach their eggs... Post by: Dumpsterkitty on 08-Nov-12, 08:04:50 PM ...to sing!
Via Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net) Mommy and Daddy fairy-wrens sing "food passwords" to teach their eggs to sing Xeni Jardin at 3:06 pm Thu, Nov 8 "Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) mothers sing to their unhatched eggs to teach the embryo inside a 'password' — a single unique note — which the nestlings must later incorporate into their begging calls if they want to get fed." Zoë Corbyn in Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wrens-teach-eggs-to-sing), on a very unusual example of avian communication. |