Simple rubber device mimics complex bird songs

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

For centuries, hunters have imitated their avian prey by whistling through their fingers or by carving wooden bird calls. Now a team of physicists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has reproduced many of the characteristics of real bird song with a simple physical model made of a rubber tube...

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