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beep@piefed.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

Birds clap in the dark to flirt

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Birds clap in the dark to flirt

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beep@piefed.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago
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In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled over for decades. Now, researchers have captured the behavior in detail, revealing how scissor-tailed nightjars create one of the most curious sounds in the avian world.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1162773/birds-clap-in-the-dark-to-flirt

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  • Doctor Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    For me the clapping in the dark usually happens after a successful flirt.

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    courts romance by snapping its wrists together

    For a second, I could only picture a bird version of West Side Story.

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