Some guy saved a PNG file to a bird’s brain
In a surprising discovery, Benn Jordan, a YouTuber and audio scientist, successfully encoded and transmitted a simple bird drawing as digital information through the complex birdsong of a European starling named "The Mouth." The starling, owned by Sarah Tidwell, was able to retain and re-transmit the 176 kilobytes of data, effectively demonstrating the bird's impressive cognitive abilities. This experiment highlights the advanced intelligence of birds, particularly corvids like crows and ravens, which can be as smart as human children. While bird mimicry is not a new phenomenon, the ability of "The Mouth" to accurately reproduce the digital information in its song is a remarkable feat, challenging the common perception of bird intelligence.
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