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Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s
Who needs Starlink when you've got an actual starling
Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. There was a small waveform that caught his attention, and zooming in, he discovered it was the bird image, but visible much later into the session time than when he was replaying the spectrogram sample from his smartphone to the starling. “This little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it, effectively transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information,” mused the music and science enthusiast.
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