{"id":400,"date":"2009-12-02T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-12-02T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:47:03","slug":"too-cool-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2009\/12\/too-cool-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Too cool, part four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s very little I can add to this, so I&#8217;ll send you over to an entry in Carl Zimmer&#8217;s blog, about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/11\/11\/feathers-that-sing-what-a-little-sexual-selection-will-do\/\" target=\"blank\">a bird with curious wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably no more complicated than evolving adaptive coloration or <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2009\/10\/too-cool-part-two\/\" target=\"blank\">planting things on your body<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a fascinating concept nonetheless. Birds developed an audible signal for communication that seems to work pretty well for them, but this is a species that developed an alternate method of doing so. To my untrained mind, this would seem to be a longer method to evolve than vocal cord variations, and one must wonder why this species departed from the norm (I believe it can still sing.) I mean, there&#8217;s a benefit to talking and eating at the same time, one I&#8217;ve wished I had, but I doubt that&#8217;s the key here. I can also speculate about the high frequency doing something for cleaning the feathers, but that&#8217;s little more than blind guessing. Still cool, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s very little I can add to this, so I&#8217;ll send you over to an entry in Carl Zimmer&#8217;s blog, about a bird with curious wings. This is probably no more complicated than evolving adaptive coloration or planting things on your body, but it&#8217;s a fascinating concept nonetheless. Birds developed an audible signal for communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,9,46],"tags":[85,86,87],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-nature","category-science","category-too-cool","tag-club-winged-manakin","tag-machaeropterus-deliciosus","tag-singing-feathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}