The common assumption is that bird song is nothing more than an expression of joy or possibly territorial declarations. Others would argue that it is birds communicating useful flight data to each other ~ drag coefficients, angles of poo-bomb attacks, cloud base altitudes, airspeed ratios and the like. I would like to suggest it is something entirely different.
At a small research division of the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland back in the late nineteen seventies, researchers took the song of the nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), transposed it to a minor key, slowed it down and then transcribed it to sheet music. This sheet music was then played back using an electric guitar. They found that mainly due to a predominance of Tritones (a melodic dissonance also known as the 'Devil's interval'), the subsequent music bore a striking resemblance to the early work of the band Black Sabbath.
They concluded that songbirds are actually broadcasting cleverly obfuscated satanic verses. The research was shut down shortly after this discovery due to lack of funding and complaints by the Catholic Church.
Draw your own conclusions, but if I was you I would rethink that bird feeder at the end of your garden.
At a small research division of the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland back in the late nineteen seventies, researchers took the song of the nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), transposed it to a minor key, slowed it down and then transcribed it to sheet music. This sheet music was then played back using an electric guitar. They found that mainly due to a predominance of Tritones (a melodic dissonance also known as the 'Devil's interval'), the subsequent music bore a striking resemblance to the early work of the band Black Sabbath.
They concluded that songbirds are actually broadcasting cleverly obfuscated satanic verses. The research was shut down shortly after this discovery due to lack of funding and complaints by the Catholic Church.
Draw your own conclusions, but if I was you I would rethink that bird feeder at the end of your garden.
