The European pied flycatcher may have a genetic predisposition to learn certain songs.
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It may not be obvious to the human ear but birds of the same species sing in different dialects.
Something people today have in common with civilizations past: a love of music.
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For thousands of years, music has been an essential part of the human experience.
‘Songs of Disappearance’, a still taken from the animation by Mervyn Street & Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman.
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These are poignant cries of a disappearing landscape – the creaking calls of gang-gangs, buzzing bowerbirds and the mournful cry of the far eastern curlew.