Interesting Fact about Bird Brains. ;)

Sparkly

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Sun May-04-08 03:17 PM
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Interesting Fact about Bird Brains. ;)

Edited on Sun May-04-08 03:19 PM by Sparkly

Fee's team has been studying zebra finches, using a system that allows them to record the firing of individual neurons in the birds' brains. They were selectively inactivating brain cells in an area called the high vocal center or HVC.

"Scientists have been inactivating this area, the HVC, for a long time to try and figure out what it does," Fee said.

They found by accident that when the HVC was inactivated, an adult bird started babbling like a juvenile.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc

I always thought rightwingers had bird brains. :rofl:

Edit: OOPS!!! I meant to post this in GD. :( Sorry mods!

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Sun May-04-08 03:19 PM
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1. Jonah Goldberg, explained at long last

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ClayZ

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Sun May-04-08 03:30 PM
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2. Three Little Birds ~Bob Marley~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnDrbagYm24&feature=related

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Sun May-04-08 03:31 PM
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3. "an adult bird started babbling like a juvenile".

In humans, I believe this is called the W syndrome.

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hfojvt

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Sun May-04-08 03:40 PM
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4. does this mean that juvenile birds just chirp, chirp, chirp

Whereas adult birds are discussing sociology, nuclear physics, and cosmology in bird language. I have never heard too many birds that didn't just repeat five or six notes ad nauseum at top volume.

Maybe we are just surrounded by juvenile birds. When a bird becomes an adult it just walks up to the north pole in its dirty underwear. That's the Tennessee birdwalk.

That would explain a lot.

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