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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2018
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A brown thrasher knows a thousand songs. A wood thrush can sing two pitches at once. A mockingbird can match the sounds around it - including car alarms. These are just a few of the 4,000 species of songbirds. How do these birds learn songs? How do they know to mimic the songs of their own species? Are they born knowing how to sing? Partha P. Mitra illuminates the beautiful world of birdsong.
Lesson by Partha P. Mitra, animation by TED-Ed.
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There's an amazing story about a flute player in 1930s that had a lyrebird pet that mimicked his music and when he later released it into the wild, it literally passed the sounds of the musician to the later lyrebird generations and they can even be heard today in the birds' songs! Birds are awesome creatures
palemoonlight96 That's so cool damn.
That’s awesome
Wow its amazing ... Now try with a heavy metal song ... It would be nice hahaha
this literally made my day.❤
Yeah i'm a little surprised TED didn't focus a bit more on the lyrebird in this. It can imitate any sound it hears if it hears it often enough and uses the unique sound to attract a mate. Things like chainsaws, doors closing, trees being cut down. Really neat creature.
Wow. This is actually really fascinating. Newfound respect for these artists.
This is so cute, I love watching videos like this - it’s just so calming and you’re learning something new at the same time 🐣🐥
They’re always so lovely
My cats enjoyed this video too; they were looking all over for the birds!
it seems they even jumped into your profile picture
Mehdi K. Lol
It resembles the way humans acquire language. Awesome
it may shock you but people are animals, not supreme overlords, no one resembles our divine image, we are like any other animals except it seems to be we're dumber as apparently many of us can't even process the simplest information received via their senses.. it is incredible mystery to me how you see people speak different language than yours and understand that they have language and still asking do birds/cats/whales have one🤦♂️
I am not sure if you are familiar with the Bible...
In Genesis it says "let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.
God made man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them.
God also allows Adam to name them...which gives him authority over the animals.
@@rosiegirl2485not that we should take what the Bible says when we're talking about historical accuracy in language development, right?
Please talk more about birds. They are amazing. We would like to know about how there are so many species.
Thank you for all your videos, I learn a lot with them
Thanks Ted-Ed. Got me wishing spring was here so I can sit down outside and listen to the birds sing as I sip on some lemonade.
Now I can’t wait for summer so I can hear the songs of the birds all the time
birds' songs and animations are really incredible
If a baby song bird hears the song of a bird from a different species will it imitate it? And if bread with other birds that grew up the same will they teach their babies the song? And after multiple generations will it still start to sound like the culture songs? And what if babies that picked up songs from two different species breed?
Ilija Mitrevski, interesting questions, hopefully someone has the answers.
You can't really cross-breed birds.
It can happen (like with some conures) but it leads to deformities so it's a bit unethical.
Veronica Rally I think I misread someone's comment, but yeah I get that two birds can foster other parents weanlings
My cockatiel learned songs from wild birds around my house!
It said in the video that the birds brain is hard wired to listen and pick up its own species song. It also said if a bird is isolated, singing is hired wired in their DNA so they will sing no matter what. If there is an isolated bird colony, they might just start singing however they wanted to but it said in the video that as most and more birds are born throughout the generations, the song becomes more and more similar to an unisolated population’s song. So that means that singing a particular song is hard wired into their DNA. Most birds have very different vocal abilities so a robin will not sound like a crow because their vocal chords are different. Many parrot species like cockatiels, parrots, parakeets have very complex mimicking abilities so they can mimic very foreign sounds like clicking, song tunes, human voice, even other animals and birds. Also adopting other species birds are not very common among birds, they have an instinct to take care of their babies.
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One of my favorites so far!! We do definitely have knowledge encoded in our genes, ask Chomsky!
0:02 wait, searching where are my earphones.
@Manoj kumar 😂 Lol!
Wow, I might incorperate this knowledge in my next art project. I am starting to respect ornitology more and more
*ornithology*
Smiling and laughing. No matter where you are from out emotions are shown the same way through our faces
I'm literally in love with this channel. It helped me so much and whenever I'm in class, I'd be the only one giving out amazing new facts. Thank you so much!!
the cutest birbs
I taught them all
carpo719 lol
I was the first one to teach all spiecies
carpo719 you've done well..................
And I ate them
joshua moe that very interesting,....................................
I love birds and the animation is beautiful and charming. : }
*🐦 Am I the only one who loves the twittering of the birds in morning?*
Alone this is stunning and further the implications immeasurable
This is brilliant! 🐦
Beautiful! It's so interesting. I love Ted ed videos
@3:11 I think this means we could somehow extract the single most attractive birdsong based on their genomes - amazing.
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Maybe that's why music from around the world shares similar characteristics and why we use similar intervals and why we like those sounds, it's hardwired into as to express ourselves through song or to enjoy hearing others do the same and in such a way that certain patterns will evolve, could be why you hear the exact same chord progression from Canon in D in all different styles or why we base catchy guitar riffs, etc on scales.
It's so beautiful!!
I love birds
Loved it! I adore birds! ❤
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This is one of the channel that I can't skip a single second
woah i saw Mississauga and Mauritius at the end, it feels good to see my hometown and my mother's :]
Incredible.
You always make my day
What an amazing design.
chirping in the rain..to God! what a beautiful language that humans cant do
That's really weird and awesome, both at the same time...
Awesome and informative video 👍
Amazing video. I really like it. Keep it up.
This is so cool
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Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
FlickosBizarros Usually means you’re a disney princess
Just like me, they long to be close to you!
Why do stars fall down from the sky?
Simple: You got some crumbs on you
Just like me, they want to be... close to yooooou!
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Wow, It turned out a hundred time more interesting than I thought
this was soo interesting !
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It is amazing
This is fascinating
Margaret de Albergaria it sure is .................
Birds are the cutest!!!
Amazing video like this only 261k views? I love every minute of this video, keep the good work Ted-Ed,..
AAAAH SO CUTE. I CAN'T.
The animation's birds are so cute 🐦🐦🐦
Without the birds, the sounds will be boring :0
Ikr
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I connected headphones as advised and it is worth for it.
this videos are so informative
I love it
Beautiful video
Nice and we call birds bird brains yet THERE SMART and have great memory.......................................
Would love to have RadioLab do an episode about this!
great animation ideas
Incredible,😊💐
Bird brains are amazing.
Just last night i was wondering when ted-ed is going to upload their next video❗️
wow cool
thank u sir amazing
Thank You
I suddenly want to teach a bird some of my favorite songs now
Thank you very much for this lesson. We needed this illustration to fully understand the mechanism for learning song in birds.
A question please, do you authorize me to make a translation of the subtitling in Arabic to make it understood by the bird lovers of my association? And thank you in advance my friend!
تبارك الله على سي مراد، راك كتبحث.
is anybody have an actual article for this, i want to use this data for my infographic assignment
Very educational
I'm pretty sure it's a lyrebird but yeah, look up lyre bird mimicking a drill. It's a hilarious video. The bird is insanely talented though, it's mimicking power tools and some other stuff too. But yeah it does the sound of a chainsaw too. Oh my gosh, if anyone reading this comment looks up this video please let me know if possible, thank you.
Can ted ed make a video about bird roosting? I was kinda expecting to see a ted ed video about that but sadly there's none. And i'm a big fan of your videos i learn a lot and usually spend half of my day scavenging on your videos.
Birds got talent
So cute
This would be a good Explain Like I’m 5 question.
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Pretty song birds
I love Ted Ed
DNA and songs... Wow.. that's was really interesting 😊❤
"Isolated birds have different songs than regular ones, but sound similar to them after a hile of repeating them."
Does that mean that if we put a bunch of people who have never heard a single language like on an island, isolated or smth, would they develop some kind of dialect similar to that of modern man? Or ancient man instead?
Cool thought.
Yep, thats right
Would it be possible to use this video in one of my video lessons? I am an elementary school music teacher and would love to use this video as part of our Nature Week Lessons!!
Wow, didn't know they sung in 17/16 time signature. lol
It's so cute
That transition though.
Love u tedx😍
So will we ever have a midi to bird converter?
Wow the animation are funny and cool!
I always wondered this
Yeap we do have it because that's how we get Languages I guess and the act of speaking because most might use signs but we tend to speak
Knowledge
I like the qoute.
At least they sing beautifully,unlike some singers nowadays who needed effects just to enhance their voices and the tunes they made.
1:06 at what region
This was very helpful to me, my instrument is very bird like.
really interesting video. but what a way to gloss over the amazing abilities of the lyrebird at the beginning... lol
I believe there was a bird that matches the sounds of a intergalactic space guns sound effect in movies, probably they might have got that the same sound on that particular bird....
Does anyone knows if this is legit? If yes, what is the bird's name?.... Thanks.
I think you talk about Einstein, the African Grey Parrot.
Are you referring to the popular video of an Australian Lyrebird mimicking Star Wars sound effects?
Cooooooollll
Ok but the lyre bird is way better than the mockingbird you mentioned. My proof is in the video where it makes noises like a laser gun and I can’t remember what else. It’s incredible
Welll, our art seem to go in circles too.