| Show Birds Trained to Sing Like Their Associates Associate A German bird fancier Cancler lies has trained canaries to sing like nightingales As As soon as fiS th they are botched batched he makes them heni listen to nightingale songs recorded rec recorded re re- re- re c corded on the phonograph and when they no rio longer need the care core of parents par pur- eats the they are le put in cin cages with the night singers As s a n result sull they sing nightingale songs and nothing else There Is Is nothing new about the plan Illan though It seems to he be worked on aD a u amore amore more co commercial scale than thon ever er be be- fore It serves es to remind the world that bird songs like human speech are learned not Inherited A finch r raised among canarIes or a n canar canary raised among finches takes the song of Its associates not of Its ancestors The Tue mocking birds bird's fondness for copyIng copying copy- copy Ing lag er e every sound that It hears bears Is noted I |
