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Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into sound

By measuring how birds鈥 vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a physical model for how those muscles produce sound, researchers have pulled songs from the minds of sleeping birds

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

19 April 2024

Great Kiskadee

A great kiskadee, a songbird that seems to dream about singing

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We can now listen to songs that a small Argentinian bird thought of in its sleep. Listening to such songs across more species of birds could inform the debate on how birds dream.

Physicist at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina got interested in the mechanics of birdsong in the early 2000s, but expected it to be just a 鈥渇un detour鈥. Instead, it led him down the path of trying to hear what happens in birds鈥 minds. He and his colleagues have…

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