A Little Flute Music: Mimicry, Memory, and Narrativity
A lyrebird chick was raised in captivity in the 1920s in Australia’s New England Tablelands, or so the story goes. The bird mimicked the sounds of the household’s flute player, learning two tunes and an ascending scale. When released back into the wild, his flute-like songs and timbre spread through...
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| Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Environmental Humanities |
| Online Access: | http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol3/3.3.pdf |