To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.
To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.
I miss the old world so much. There was a blackbird couple nesting in our apartment building’s courtyard. Every morning it’s a cacophony of the most beautiful and randomly iterated melodies. I loved waking up and snoozing in to it at 5am.