"... [Christopher Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz] speculated that the mountain lions were responding to changes in the urban soundscape, which might typically be filled with human chatter and the rumble of passing cars. 'But as soon as those audio stimuli are gone, then the animals are, like, "Well, might as well go see if there’s anything to eat here,"' he said.
Just north, in a newly hushed San Francisco, white-crowned sparrows began singing more quietly, yet the distance across which they could communicate 'more than doubled,' researchers found.
The birds also began singing at lower frequencies, a shift that is associated with better performance — and an improved ability to defend territory and woo mates. 'Their songs were much more "sexy,'" said Elizabeth Derryberry, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and an author of the study.
'And it was overnight,' she added. 'Which kind of gives you hope that if you reduce noise levels in an area, you can have immediate positive impact.'"
Slow down — anthropause — and the birds will sing a sexier song.
I looked — just a little — for some information on the sexiness of birdsong. How would you know the effect on the nervous system of another bird? I did find
this: "After some 20 years of theorizing, a scientist is publicly renouncing the 'beautiful hypothesis' that male birds’ sexy songs could indicate the quality of their brains."
Do you know when the bird's song is sexy? Do you know when the human's idea is beautiful?
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California is so friendly to mountain lions that several of my patients were eaten by them and several other barely escaped. Is an "Anthropause" when everybody has been eaten?
And those mountain lions will find things to eat when they go to look: toddlers playing in the yard. pet dogs, solo joggers in the evening …
The bird's song is sexy when it attracts a mate. The human idea is beautiful when it inspires other humans to admire, emulate, adopt, use the idea and the result is a postive thing for humans. Go ahead - disagree, but do so beautifully.
"After some 20 years of theorizing, a scientist is publicly renouncing the 'beautiful hypothesis' that male birds’ sexy songs could indicate the quality of their brains."
Um, don't tell that to the godwit when the little bustard is singing his heart out for some dickcissel that'll swallow from a couple of boobies. Mating isn't some monotonous lark, ya know? Anyone who thinks otherwise is a common loon.
Translation of the bird's mating calls are, every single one, "Hey, let's fuck!"
Sometimes when one says that the left hates humanity and wants to see its elimination, they are right.
Maybe the lower frequency song sounds more intimate because it doesn't broadcast as far. So, a female will feel more special.
Two words - Junk Science.
"Do you know when the bird's song is sexy?"
When the female birds twerk themselves into a wild frenzy, you know it's a much sexier song.
This is along the lines of the social media memes extolling the wonderfulness of cleaner air in the absence of all those carbon belching monstrosities on our roads. They really do think that freedom is "Free-dumb."
They like to invent words to make you feel stupid.
It's kinda like cis-heterosexual. Words that don't really have a meaning.
Somewhat reminds me of Wolfen (1981). [The Wolfen (not wolves) are predators that co-evolved with humans and now live in the decaying inner cities where they prey on the outcasts and diseased who would never be missed. Good movie.]
Must be nice to be a university professor and just make stuff up...
some human events, just don't slow down..
NJ transgender woman transferred from women’s only prison after impregnating 2 inmates
“… I've heard some say that too much of anything
Is not good for you, baby
But I don't know about that
As many times as we've loved and
We've shared love and made love
It doesn't seem to me like it's enough
It's just not enough, no
It's just not enough, oh baby
… My starling, I can't get enough of your love, baby
Girl, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love, babe
Some things I can't get used to, no matter how far I fly
It's like the more you give, the more I want
And baby, that's no lie, oh no, baby”
—- Barry Bobwhite
Do you know when the bird's song is sexy?
I don't, but I'm guessing there are people out there who get a boner or whatever when they hear chirping. The'd be the ones to ask.
“ Do you know when the bird's song is sexy?“
Apparently Elizabeth does. Lady may have some interesting fetishes.
“ Do you know when the human's idea is beautiful?”
I settle for knowing when the human is.
They hate humanity and everything we do. We are a taint on the Earth.
NJ transgender woman transferred from women’s only prison after impregnating 2 inmates
Suzie has two mothers, even when a "mother" is male in absentia or dressed as a social construct with simulated feminine attributes, is a politically congruent model of diversity and social progress. Meanwhile, prisoners of the state, ten year-old girls in woke climates, are raped... rape-raped, impregnated, and the "burden" of evidence is aborted in darkness, secrecy, under a veil of privacy in order to sustain handmade tales.
Of cargo cults and collateral damage. The pause preceded the not so novel Covid-19/20/21/22 pandemic and mandates, with variable effect and longevity in diverse jurisdictions.
They hate humanity and everything we do. We are a taint on the Earth.
They believe that Earth has a limited carrying capacity for deplorables, where diversity must be limited in order to sustain their quality of life. We have entered the twilight fringe, or we only manage to pause its interminable progress.
The male bird warbles, the female bird flutters, and dozens of chicks follow, with dad standing guard, and mom leading the parade.
its rather striking how matthew vaughn, made samuel jackson the villain in his kingsman series, although james arnold is the gaea theorist, ala william lovelace, who has since changed his stripes, colin firth admits to jackson, that the emissions numbers are a red herring, both probably believe it,
@carol
"Lower frequency"
Barry White and Marvin Gaye have the same effect.
I liked it best when we were not the ones in control. When people found adversity in Nature and respected it. Now, it’s all about conquering Nature, and meddling manipulation to save it.
Do birds sing sexier? I’m sure not having to spend extra energy shouting over interfering human noise is a relief and that saved energy could go into more meaning and nuance.
Spoken like a human- lol.
Some species clearly benefited from our absence...
As an introvert I am one such species.
Since the comment I tried got blocked out due to a Blogger "whoops!" let me try again.
This trope about how the natural world would be better without humans, as if humans are not part of the natural world, is a rather old trope. And on one hand you can get wilderness reserves, and on the other calls for human extermination; and the east coast media has always seemed rather fond of Option Two.
The anthropause -- those moments when you just don't feel human or don't really want to be human.
I understand anthropology, the study of "man," but new terms like anthropocene, anthropogenic or anthropause sound more than a little alien, as though whoever this "anthro" is, he sure isn't you or me.
"Sometimes when one says that the left hates humanity and wants to see its elimination, they are right."
Well, they hate the rest of humanity, anyway. Not so much themselves. Evidence: How often do they eliminate themselves to advance that goal instead of thinking up things that will eliminate others?
Christopher Wilmers ... speculated ...
“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”
-- Donald Rumsfeld
we were never in control, take a look at a hurricane, a tsunami and pretend otherwise,
etymology
"from Greek anthrōpos "man; human being" (including women)"
Manopause?
If city bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks, feral cats, chihuahuas and so on could publish, they would describe the "anthropause" as an unmitigated disaster and wonder why they'd been so suddenly abandoned by their protectors.
You could take every person on Earth, and fit them -- with Wu-Flu "distancing" -- fit them entirely into the state of Massachusetts. Which would immediately tax every aspect of their existence, and MANDATE anything they'd not prohibited.
This is what happens when your "journalism", academia, and Democrat-party politics are controlled by Affluent White Female Liberals ... AWFL.
they hate the rest of humanity, anyway. Not so much themselves. Evidence: How often do they eliminate themselves to advance that goal instead of thinking up things that will eliminate others?
No, they are nihilistic through and through, beginning with self-hate. Abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, transgender transitions, same-sex relations (which are necessarily sterile and incapable of reproduction) even when it is high-risk (AIDS, monkeypox, etc.), population control (including their own low fertility rate) -- the left is a veritable self-death wish.
"from Greek anthrōpos "man; human being" (including women)"
Equal and complementary.
Women, men, and "our Posterity" are from Earth. Feminists are from Venus. Masculinists are from Mars. Social progressives are from Uranus.
Trans- indicates a state or process of divergence. Gender is sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation). Abortion is an affirmative action to terminate a process (e.g. human life), includes planned popoulationhood (e.g. war), planned parenthood (i.e. her Choice), planned parent/hood, induced dysfunction, delegated mutilation, murder, etc. Abortion also includes Her Choice sooner or later for everyone and everything. Long live carbon that orders our world.
Golf courses need humans playing golf. And golf courses are the ultimate pristine nature. Rumor has it that the Garden of Eden is code word for the first golf course. Not that it was that interesting until management started sending sexy teen girls out in concession carts.
Last year we had a major infestation of chipmunks. Cute little critters, but they play hell with our stone foundation walls, brick walkways, and the pool. So we trap them, and drive them over to the other side of the river. (They are back again this year in greater force. I am encouraging the local cats to have at it).
One morning after a particularly successful stretch of chipmunk trapping and removal, there was one chipmunk which rather blatantly stood right outside the back door and repeatedly made very loud, plaintive-sounding noises. I commented to my wife that the chipmunk made me feel bad, because He seemed to be sad that we had taken the others away. She said that it is more likely that the chipmunk was very loudly proclaiming "I am the sexy king of the chipmunks--come and get it, Baybee!"
She's pretty sharp, my wife.
Michael K said...
remember when Florida alligators were endangered? Eagles?(I got four mating pair within 20 miles of me.) There are pumas in central and southern Illinois.
boatbuilder.
We had the same problem until a family of foxes moved in. Stray cats seem to be scarce as well. Hmmm.
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