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Did... did a guy just save a picture of a bird to a bird’s brain?

YouTube acoustic explorer Benn Jordan appears to have gotten a starling — a bird arguably better at mimicry than a parrot — to do that! He turns a drawing into sound, the bird repeats the sound, and a similar drawing shows up on the computer. “I saved a PNG image to a bird,” his video claims. The result isn’t surprising because of course these birds can repeat sounds — but how often do we think of sound as encoded visual data?

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