The impact that wiped out the dinosaurs also wiped out all songbirds, except for in (ark) Australia. Australian songbirds then spread out to rest of the planet.
The closest living descendents (aka basal lineages) are the Lyrebird and the Rufus scrub bird. The lyrebird’s song is a mixture of its own song and other birds songs. They have been also been known to mimic chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, and human speech.
Thought the thumbnail said Song Bogan.
TIL, not YSK
You should know! I consider it important information that is necessary for life, as now you get to imagine every songbird tossing in a “cunt” or “good on ya” while twittering away.
My thought is that it also implies that there’s a good chance dinosaurs sang.
Equally valid as both
Love it. I will from now on imagine every song bird as singing in an Australian accent.
I mean not to nitpick but there are (were?) hundreds of aboriginal languages, none of which were related to the colonialist accent. And they were there for like thousands of years. So like fuck these birds if they’re speaking English tbh
Every morning they’re screaming “g’day, mate!”
To be fair, all birds who went extinct back then also still had a common ancestor somewhere, all life on earth does.
There’s plenty of convergent evolution. Plants keep evolving into trees, so there isn’t a single origin for them. Crustaceans keep evolving into crabs.
Always and eternal is the carsinisation cycle. One glorious day we too will realize the optimal form and shuffle sideways into Nirvana. Together, as a species, we will snip the ties of suffering that bind us to this samsara.
Craaab people, craaab people♫
So, what about Australia made all the birds sing?
screaming out of anxiety at all the stuff that can kill them.
but in a pretty soprano voice
That’s nice and all for a science or bird community. Not here, though.
