I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying theĀ causes and processes ofĀ illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Dear Likechicken ; How about birds? The skylark? Canaray? Don’t you say ‘Bird singing?’ Only problem is that we don’t understand it, the meaning of their songs.
We Koreans say “Bird crying!” I like your expression better than ours.
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Many animals make sounds that sound a lot like singing: Birds and whales being two good examples. Dingoes howl in very musical ways, and my uncle’s malamutes always used to ‘sing’ along with fire-trucks and the radio. Many animals communicate with each other by sounds and rhythms, which to us can sound a lot like music.
You might like to go have a look at this question from the Organ Zone. Emma listens to her male mice singing to the female mice, trying to woo them!
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š yes. Maybe not like Lady Gaga or One Direction, but birds sing (to communicate or impress a female), whales sing (to communicate and impress a female).
I’m not sure if animals would sing for fun like we do, but I know some species can sing and it usually means something!
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Yup, many animals sing. Many birds sing (there’s an entire group of birds call the passerines which contains many of the singing birds), whales sing, mice can sing, and so on. And many other animals make noise to communicate: monkeys call to each other to warn of predators. Elephants use sound to communicate with each other to coordinate their families and do other social things. Some male frogs use calls (which can get them killed by predators!) to attract females; crickets chirp at each other to attract females and drive off other males. There’s literally hundreds of examples throughout the animal kingdom of animals making noise for the purpose of communication, and many biologists study these sorts of signals exclusively. You can study why they make noise (evolution), how they make noise (physiology, sensory ecology, etc), and more. There’s a lot to study here!
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