How to make a German bird sing the Ghetto Gospel
July 21st, 2005
According to German ornithologists, birds have learnt to imitate the ring tones they hear. Richard Schneider of the NABU bird conservation centre near the university city of Tuebingen stated “The birds have an uncanny ability to mimic these ring tones. This has picked up in tandem with the boom in mobile phone ownership???. The best mimics are jackdaws, starlings and jays. The ornithologists also claim that the birds are merely adapting to the environment which includes these annoying ring tones. So if you hear a bird mimicking Turn me on (by Kevin Lytle), don’t panic, it’s just their new mating call.
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My God,
That has to be some sort of “sign of the apocalypse”.
“it’s for the birds!”
My phone would have them singing Moby and the Beatles.
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not kidding. one time i heard a bird whistling a part of the theme to SOUTH PARK.
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thought its a natural tendency to start mimicing the oft heard tunes. well, i’ve found myself on a few occasions humming tunes completely involuntarily..!!