Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1915 — EXPLAINING SONGS OF BIRDS [ARTICLE]

EXPLAINING SONGS OF BIRDS

Beautiful Notes of the Nightingale, for Instance, Are Inspired by Paternal Love.

It 1» generally assumed that a bird sings because he Is happy, but science goes deeper for an explanation of the why and wherefore of the - bird’s song. Nature’s 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 tef encourage the fulfillment of hatching.

The song stops when the little birds come out of the rfhell. The nightingale, 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 come from the eggs the song changes to a sort of guttural croak. Implying anxiety and sense of responsibility. If the nest and contents were destroyed the nightingale would at once resume his beautiful song to inspire his mate to help him build another nest and start all over again the loving work of being fruitful and multiplying.

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When she reads a historical novel she skips the historic part.