Urbanization leads to great...

[Pastor]

tits.
AZCentral.com

Researchers in Europe have found that city birds perform a kind of avian rap while those in the countryside produce a gentler and more relaxed birdsong.

Tim Guilford, professor of animal behavior at Oxford University, said animals show astonishing variety in the ways that they communicate and that this behavioral flexibility may be one reason why great tits are surviving in the face of rapid urbanization when so many other species are failing.

"Great tits learn songs from each other and it seems that selective learning of the most suitable city songs - or perhaps the rejection of the least effective ones - may be behind the consistent differences between city habitats and the neighboring forests," Guilford said.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

There really isn't anything to add here, so I respectfully request that this thread be locked now.

 

[Freelance Hack]

I bet there are some really great tits in Amsterdam.

 

[Ace]

It's nice to see evidence that great tits aren't in danger of becoming extinct, but then I never really thought they were.

 

[Freelance Hack]

If great tits are flourishing, then doesn't that really diminish their value? Don't get me wrong, I like great tits, but if there are a bunch of great tits to see, then don't most of them just become really, really good tits?

I'm not sure I like great tits being watered down.

 

[Ace]

If great tits are flourishing, then doesn't that really diminish their value? Don't get me wrong, I like great tits, but if there are a bunch of great tits to see, then don't most of them just become really, really good tits?

I'm not sure I like great tits being watered down.

I guess you are happy that the silicone implants were re-approved, then.

 

[finishthehat]

Someone has to say it: this thread is worthless, etc. etc.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Here you go. For the guys there are tits. For the ladies, some nuts. One pic pleases all!

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I grew up in a very rural area and saw plenty of great tits growing up. Most of them were real too.

 

[Double J]

I'm not sure I like great tits being watered down.

What about hosed down while covered by a thin layer of white cotton?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

If great tits are flourishing, then doesn't that really diminish their value? Don't get me wrong, I like great tits, but if there are a bunch of great tits to see, then don't most of them just become really, really good tits?

I'm not sure I like great tits being watered down.

Hmmm ... references to water sports. The board has been shut down for less than this ...

 

[BYH]

The value of great tits cannot be diminished because of more great tits.

This isn't like property value. The laws of economics do not apply here.

That cracked me up.