• Tap Dancing Songbirds
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[media]https://youtu.be/XI2D_V9DQeY[/media] [quote][B]Tap dancing birds: the multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird[/B] by Nao Ota, Manfred Gahr, and Masayo Soma The [B]Blue-capped Cordon-Bleu[/B] ([I]Uraeginthus cyanocephalus[/I]) performs an elaborate courtship display that incorporates both song and dance. Birds are well known for their courtship routines that regularly involve both visual and acoustic stimuli, but acoustic, foot-generated stimuli are relatively rare. Here, the birds perform a tap dance that involves visual head bobbing and acoustic tapping simultaneously. Ota and colleagues found that the cordon-bleus could perform up to 50 steps in a single second! To us, the sound created by such rapid footwork would sound more like the buzz of a flying insect or hummingbird, than rapid tapping. It is still unclear how listening mates respond to stepping stimuli, but it appears that both males and females perform the display with similar gusto, suggesting it might reinforce pair bonds for this monogamous species. [/quote] [url=http://www.nature.com/articles/srep16614]More Here[/url]
sounds like some sorta jazzy whale debut single
The female's performance in real time sounds like a disk jockey.
I can imagine the slowed down female sounds in a horror game.
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