For the Birds - 2 Minute Thesis

How do birds know who they're related to? Miya Warrington explains her thesis of listening to bird calls in the Australian Outback.

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[Nygaard]

Thank you for making these little rays of light, PHD Comics!

And good luck with your work Miya - you're a special bird!

[AristarcoPalacios]

Super cool and awesome!! Hope one day we can communicate with all creatures, no matter the species.

[LeiosLabs]

I guess all social people are a little bird-brained.

Great video!

[Zerepzerreitug]

I wonder if humans started talking like birds, in the sense that we learned how to sing and chirp before learning how to form word concepts.
Or perhaps we started imitating other animals, like parrots. Either way, it would be an interesting case of convergent evolution

[Ral]

So, do this means humans started to talk before evolving into humans beings?

#PHDcomics   #evolution

[leukocyteofdoom]

well, it's high time people started talking to animals in their language, instead of trying to make animals talk to us via ways we would inherently understand :-) 

also, does this mean that birds are totally tweeting each-other tweets all day long? bc i find the thought hilarious, okay :D

[marklipowskyjr.]

I guess you can say these birds are... Tweeting!

[DX]

Um, can we just throw armloads of grant money at you now, to continue talking to birds? Seriously great video, well presented as well =)

[tommypetraglia]

I came specifically to hear bird calls but that was not to be. Bummer. But I did get all the person's credentials. You Tube can be such a disappoinment to me