📗 -> 01/30/25: NPB162-L8
🎤 Vocab
❗ Unit and Larger Context
Started with Barn Owl worksheet
Birdsong
✒️ -> Scratch Notes
Sensory modalities involved in communication
Visual Signal (vision):
- Jewelfish - Different spotting patterns
- Fiddler Crab - Enlargened claw waved around rythmically
Acoustic Signals (audition):
- Red-eyed tree frog - Vocal sac is a resonator to amplify calls
Chemical Signals (olfaction / taste):
- Ants - Foraging ants secrete a tiny amount of trail substance, providing a path between the nest and the food source
Tactile Signals:
- Monkeys - Tactile behaviors: huddling, grooming, holding hands, tail-twining. Number of tail loops around one another is informative.
Vocalizations
Species show language at different levels:
Mammals
- Humans
- Whales
- Seals
vs. - Dogs
- Cats
Birds
- Songbirds
- Hummingbirds
- Parrots
Auditory Learning
the ability to learn and remember novel sound associations
- Dog can learn the command “sit”
Vocal Usage
the ability to learn to produce innate or learned sounds in unfamiliar contexts
- Dog can learn to bark for food
Vocal Production Learning
The ability to imitate sounds
- Songbirds learning their songs
Vocal production learning and speech/song production are the rarest among vertebrates
Birds can learn to imitate speech - Disco budgie video
🧪 -> Refresh the Info
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🔗 -> Links
Resources
- Put useful links here
Connections
- Link all related words