The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No different to most pop music.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enjoy it before Zuck sucks all that water out to cool the computers that bring you Italian brainrot animals and Turbodong 2000 videos.

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• agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL this waterfalls want to get nasty

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, still WAY better than listening to traffic and incessant car noise?

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• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but there’s so much more being communicated.

  Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, you’ll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the “message” until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.

  Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - I’ve seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms from the soil.

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  • ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jays in my area well fly around making eagle calls convincing enough to fool plenty humans (myself included). Multiple times I’ve heard that unique shriek and searched the sky for a big bird only to see a cheeky Blue Jay hopping around in a tree 🤣

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    honestly i’d expect most sounds to not be mating sounds unless it’s specifically a time of year where most of the animals there are in mating season

    i think we humans tend to forget that it’s not very normal to just always be looking to bang, for most animals (and plants even) it’s done very enthusiastically at specific times.

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• Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you really boil it down, all that any species ever does is in some way an attempt to propagate its genes. We aren’t any different either. The artistic spark that got Davinci to paint the Mona Lisa was there due to such behaviour being an evolutionarily beneficial trait (being good at art increases the social standing of a person and thus increases their chances of reproduction). I don’t want to sound cynical about this because I’m not. That’s just life. It really doesn’t matter. The painting is still beautiful.

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s where I’ve always been confused. Every living being wants to propogate their species through innate biological urges and behaviors, whether they realize it or not. Obviously humans recognize these behaviors and are able to choose whether or not to actually have children or to simply act on these urges without procreating (condoms, birth control, etc.). But the innate biological inclinations are still there.

    It’s odd for me because I’ve never had these urges or inclinations for sex. Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not human or something. Because every living being seems to experience this. Even when I discovered the concept of asexuality, I found that a very significant number of these individuals either oddly still had a sex drive or they were sexually traumatized in some way which blocked it. I have never had a sex drive and was never sexually traumatized. I was not a “late bloomer”, as I’m in my 30s with the same lack of normal human feelings.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not limited to direct reproduction of one’s own genes. Keep in mind that we live in a society. Contributing to that society means helping others of our species (with almost the same genes) pass their genes on. Just being kind to others is already great. You’re valid.

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  • zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t try to propagate my genes ¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps not with conscious intent. I suppose even staying alive and contributing to a society still means that you help your relatives pass their genes on. Even gay penguins do this when they adopt an orphaned egg.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, i don’t think there was ever a time where artists had a high social standing because of the art. Not even the greek philosophers we admire today.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair point, but despite how we as a society treat artists, I still think that the underlying impulse to do art is an attempt to capture the interest and appreciation of others, building social bonds. Rarely is art made without a tought of presenting it to others. This is how art seems to happen with every other species on earth that does it.

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• woodenghost@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Outside of mating season, birds definitely do sing just for fun.

  And even in mating season, I wonder if birds really consciously try to “get laid” or if they just sing, because it feels like the right thing to do in the moment and then getting laid happens. I mean, some start singing very young. How would they know what it’s for the first time? Not all birds are as smart as crows.

  This review paper looks at the motivation for both kinds of singing: intrinsically motivated (just for fun, all year round) and singing that attracts mates. In the latter, it’s unclear, what triggers the motivation. The author supposes, it might be a combination of socially reinforced behavior and the vicinity of a mate, rather then the act of copulation, that triggers the reward.

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• Verito@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Birds are generally saying one of two things: “Fuck you,” or “Fuck me.”

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, big same, ya know?

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some are also like “Fuck off, this is my tree!”

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• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Girl Who Could Talk to Birds

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes the sound is the animals actually getting laid.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The hills! They’re alive!!

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• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This meme implies that birds and insects are not animals

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  • Eiren@lemmygrad.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound… Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the sound of millions of animals desperately trying to get laid

  And yet wehn I do it, I’m a pervert and asked to leave the park.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need to dress more flamboyantly. Like a peacock.

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    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tehehe, “cock”!

      I’ll show myself out, thank you.

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• trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or trying to kill each other at lunch time

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or a meal

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And allergies are because your nose is full of tree jizz

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  • Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t go out in summer cause people I constantly have to say no homo and people keep looking at me all weird

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah its the whole baby, not jizz

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re thinking of seeds.

      Pollen is only the male half of the genetic material required for sexual plant reproductin.

      Hence, jizz.

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    • mcqtom@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Babies are jizz.

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• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That just makes it all the more beautiful, to be honest.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and it makes a lot of sense when one thinks of clear cutting in terms of puritanism.

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