A 2002 Ig Nobel Peace Prize-winning device is coming to the iPhone and to Twitter. Crunchgear has a perfect headline and a succinct report: Bowlingual: iPhone app translates what your dog barks, posts it to Twitter Do you remember the Bowlingual, the portable dog language translator that was released in Japan last year? The basic […]
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Why do shrews twitter?
Shrews, along with scurrying, spend a great deal of time twittering. German scientists Bjorn M. Siemers, Grit Schauermann, HendrikTurni and Sophie von Marten tried to figure out why. For that they developed an artificial shrew: Shrews are very vocal animals. We tested behaviourally whether the high-pitched laryngeal ‘twittering’ calls of as-yet unclear function serve for […]