Great discoveries in science (continued).
Scientists at Aberystwyth University in the UK “have found that male great tits in 20 UK towns and cities sang at a higher pitch to be heard above the man-made noise.”
According to the BBC, researchers have also found that the city birds don’t understand rural birds very well.
Fill in your own joke.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins