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In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, Erich Jarvis Finds Clues to Speech
- Theodores 9y agoI started filming birds in super slow motion 240fps whilst I fed them. I was amazed at how much went on, it is as if their life happened at 10x speed with lots of in air action that you would not see otherwise. I don't know their language but they are not schreeching for the sake of it. When you listen to their utterances in slow motion it is more like 'whale song', it is hard to believe something is not being said. The birds I study have at rest heart rates that are stupidly fast. I do wonder if their smaller brains are being used ten times as fast and therefore do not need to be ten times larger. RISC vs CISC. Until recently you would have to pay a fortune for a posh camera to do slow motion. Now with mobile phones a lot is possible and study is accessible to more people.