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Show EXPLAINING SONGS OF BIRDS ! Beautiful Notes of the Nightingale, for Instance, Are Inspired by Paternal Love. It is generally assumed that a bird sings because he is happy, but science sci-ence goes deeper for "in explanation of the why and wherefore of the bird's song. Nature' optimistic joy in constructive progress is expressed in the singing of the male birds who charm their mates to further their wooing, and continue after eggs are laid to encourage the fulfillment of hatching. The song stops when the little birds come out of the shell. The nightingale, nightin-gale, for weeks during the period of nest-building and hatching, charms his mate and human ears near him with the beautiful music of his love song. But as soon as the little nightingales night-ingales come from the eggs the song changes to a sort of guttural croak, implying anxiety and sense of responsibility. respon-sibility. If the nest and contents w:ere destroyed de-stroyed the nightingale would at once I resume his beautiful song to inspire his mate to help him build another nest and start all over again the loving lov-ing work of being fruitful and multi-I multi-I plying. |