This is cool: they used recordings from wild #honeyeaters to teach the young #birds in the zoo the original songs.

But also kind of sad: “The full version of the wild song taught to zoo-bred males disappeared from the wild during the study, making the zoo population the only remaining source of traditional song culture.”

https://www.biographic.com/singing-teachers-for-honeyeaters/

#songbirds #birdsongs #conservation #zoo