woodenghost
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- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Anting 2 weeks ago:
Without medication
💊 🐦⬛ Just flying over to the ant drug store to get some fresh HCOOH.
- Comment on UK announces further £450m military support to Ukraine 5 weeks ago:
It’s also wealth transfer from bottom to top. They don’t just write a free check. These drones and weapons probably come from British manufacturers. So they take taxes and cut services for the people and give to the rich, without threatening anyone’s profits. If they were finding something non destructive, it would cut int someone’s business.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 5 months ago:
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 6 months ago:
It’s just that normal gravity on earth feels exactly like being in an accelerating escalator in space. So you can’t tell the difference from the inside. Like in the elevator you can ask them, wether your still on earth or accelerating in space. Einstein used this thought experiment to develop the general theory of relativity.