King penguin chicks can hear a quarter of a second of their parents’ call and know it is them. While surrounded by hundreds of other screaming birds.
White bellbirds produce a call that hits 125.4 decibels — the same volume as a whole-ass rock concert.
Common nightingales have between 150 and 200 distinct song types. Mostly used for seduction (who’s surprised tbh?)
Parts of male zebra finch brains are 3-6 times larger than females to accommodate the complexity of their songs.
The cassowary head casque might have evolved primarily to act as a microphone to broadcast calls so low, us humans can’t hear them. They even tilt their head down and forward to make the broadcast more effective.
Superb lyrebirds are probably the best mimics on Earth, and tailor their courtship dances to particular sounds they’ve “collected.” They literally have a dance for the “song” of a chainsaw.
Truly bonkers shit these birds be doing with sound.
The club-winged manikin decided that vocalization was overrated and it would be cool if it played its own wings like a violin to make sound
Palm cockatoos are drummers
The whooping crane has a trachea that loops way back into its body to get enough resonance for its trumpeting calls
I’ve never watched Scott Pilgrim but I’m reading about this animated Netflix series and apparently one of the reasons they were able to get the whole cast of the 2010 movie to reprise their roles is bc Michael Cera fucking responded to a 9 year old cast email thread out of nowhere as if no time had passed and got the cast all chatting with each other again
