Sound in the animal kingdom, with David George Haskell
Instant Genius
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Birds and Humans, in a Strange Relationship
Most birds are not doing the djs work of sampling their environment and putting together in cool ways. What they're doing is listening to their own species the way we do. So humans have taken primate culture and merged it with a bird like way of using sound, and that's where we get human language.
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