A music and science lover named Benn Jordan has done something amazing with a young starling. He turned a simple drawing of a bird into sound waves and taught the bird to remember and repeat it back. The starling was found as a baby next to a busy train track and raised by humans, which made it really good at copying unusual sounds. Jordan played the bird-shaped sound to the starling during a recording session. Later, when he looked through hours of recordings, he found the bird had learned to sing back the same pattern.
The starling stored about 176 kilobytes of information in its memory and could repeat it perfectly. Jordan thinks this bird-based data system could work at speeds of about 2 megabytes per second, though there are many limits to how well it works. He says it's crazy that you could put a speaker in your yard and store any amount of data in songbirds.
Source: Tom’s Hardware
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