Birds create PLAYLISTS to entice a mate! Male song sparrows memorise a 30-minute mix and deliberately shuffle and repeat their tunes to keep a 女性（の）'s attention, 熟考する／考慮する finds

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Many of us pack our Spotify playlists with an eclectic mix of tunes to keep our party guests entertained.?

Now, 研究員s have 明らかにする／漏らすd that even birds like to mix things up with 30-minute-long playlists of their own to help attract a mate.??

Biologists 記録，記録的な／記録するd the 独特の birdsong of male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) in?Pennsylvania to find patterns in their calls.

The males deliberately shuffled their song repertoire, they 設立する, かもしれない as a way to keep it 利益／興味ing for their 女性（の） audience.?

The 熟考する／考慮する shows male song sparrows keep 跡をつける of the order of their songs and how often each one is sung for up to 30 minutes, so they can change up their next 30 minutes of tunes.???

Song sparrows are a ありふれた songbird throughout North America, but only males sing. They use their song to defend their turf and 法廷，裁判所 mates

The new 熟考する／考慮する was led by Stephen Nowicki at Duke University in?North Carolina and William A. Searcy at the University of Miami, Florida. They （人命などを）奪う，主張する song sparrows 'communicate with the 複雑さ of human language'.?

'Song sparrows cycle through their repertoires 意味ありげに more efficiently than would be 推定する／予想するd from 無作為の sequencing,' the team say in the paper,?published in?訴訟／進行s of the 王室の Society B.

'推定では also, many other general 支配するs may be discoverable in some of the other 4,000 or so 種類 of songbirds.'?

Song sparrows are a ありふれた songbird throughout North America, but only males sing. They use their song to defend their turf and 法廷，裁判所 mates.?

When 支持を得ようと努めるing, they sing up to 12 different two-second songs, a repertoire that can take nearly 30 minutes to get through, since they repeat the same song several times before going on to the next one.?

In 新規加入 to 変化させるing the number of repeats, males also shuffle the order of their tunes each time they sing their 支援する 目録.?

However, it wasn't known whether males change up their song order and repeats by 事故 or by design.?

To learn more, Searcy 負担d up 記録，記録的な／記録するing gear, trekked out to the backwoods of southwestern Crawford 郡 in Pennsylvania, 始める，決める up mics pointed to the trees and 根気よく waited for five hours a day.?

'Adult male song sparrows were 記録，記録的な／記録するd on their 領土s in old fields and forest clearings and along the shores of lakes and 水路s,' Searcy and 同僚s explain in the paper.

'Each 支配する was 記録，記録的な／記録するd on two mornings with a mean of 9.5 days between 記録，記録的な／記録するing 開会／開廷／会期s.'?

Spectrograms of eight song types in the repertoire of a male song sparrow. Spectrograms visually 代表する the signal strength, or 'loudness', of a signal over time at さまざまな frequencies 現在の in a particular waveform

After 記録，記録的な／記録するing the 十分な 控訴 of songs from more than 30 birds, the team pored over visual spectrographs of the 音声部の and analysed how often each song was sung and in what order.??

Much like a Spotify playlist, the male birds 一般に sang through their 十分な repertoire before repeating a song, they 設立する.?

The 研究員s also 設立する that the more a sparrow sang a given song, the longer he took to get 支援する to that song, かもしれない to build up hype and novelty before that song was sung again.?

For example, if a male sang 'Song A' 10 times in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動, he'd sing even more renditions of his other songs before returning to Song A again.?

Alternatively, if Song A was only warbled three times during a 始める，決める, then a male song sparrow tended to recite a shorter rendition of the 残り／休憩（する） of his repertoire ーするために return to Song A.?

Taken together, these findings 論証する that song sparrows 所有する an 極端に rare talent known as 'long-distance dependencies', where?one element 影響する／感情s choice of another occurring かなり later.?

In other words, it means that what a male song sparrow sings in the moment depends on what he sang as much as 30 minutes ago.

Pictured, a song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) calling while perched on a tree stump in Pennsylvania, US

At 30 minutes, male?song sparrows have a 360 times larger memory capacity than the previous 記録，記録的な／記録する 支えるもの／所有者, the canary, which can only juggle about five seconds 価値（がある） of song （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） in this way.

It remains to be seen whether better shuffling ability gives males an advantage at finding love, however.?

It's possible 女性（の）s 持続する 利益／興味 in a mate who mixes it up more, and are いっそう少なく likely to go off with another male.?

未来 研究 could 実験（する） this by comparing birdsong data with paternity 実験（する）s of chicks laid by a 女性（の） song sparrow, によれば the team.