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Bird Sings Complex Harmonies

by Pat Coate | September 18, 2005

Rain Forests of Ecuador - Possibly the most complex vocalizing by any creature aside from humans has been heard by scientists standing in an Ecuadorian bamboo forest listening to plain-tailed wrens.

Both males and females hit their notes right on cue so that the ABCD phrasing flows along as though only one bird were singing.

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