To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_tester
https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/18/lake-merritt-pelican-hank-documentary-new-parkway/
A short documentary about her, her caretakers, and her fraught future premieres this Sunday at the New Parkway Theater.
https://oaklandvoices.us/2024/07/02/oaklands-best-bookstores-a-guide-to-unique-literary-havens-and-community-spaces/
Book Lovers Have Plenty of Oakland Shops to Choose From
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-species-sizes-rare-evolution-action.html
A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14230
https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/19/community-ambassadors-oakland-public-safety-policing/
Ambassadors are meant to improve public safety, de-escalate conflict, and help keep the city clean. Are these programs working?
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