也是一只自由泳的小鸟
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pikapika caracara 
Crows are among the most frequent mobbers, [...]. Gulls often resort to the practice, too, with anunusual twist: vomiting on the predator with keen aim. Colonies offieldfares fire from another orifice, ejecting feces on a predator insuch volume and with such accuracy that the threatening creature isliterally grounded or stopped in its tracks. If enough of thesedroppings-bombs hit their target, they can soak a bird’s wings so itcan’t fly.
丢粪攻击太可怕了吧
No wonder birds have evolved numerous strategies for raising alarm. [...] Sometimes the warning isn’t a sound at all but the silence between sounds. When noisy, social birds like red-winged blackbirds suddenly get quiet, it’s a strong signal there’s danger nearby.
最怕空气突然安静
每天吭哧看英文，一个明显的感觉就是我现在看中文越来越快了（？
以前一目十行现在一目一整屏吧，怎么回事，是母语优势还是中文优势？
For centuries, it was thought that male songbirds alone used song as they used fancy plumage and elaborate tails, to attract females and compete with rival males. The female role was to listen and choose and, in so doing, exert influence through sexual selection, driving the evolution of elaborate singing by preferring males with ever more melodious and complex songs. This was considered a classic example of the power of sexual selection to generate extreme sex differences in brain and behavior. Instances of female song were largely dismissed as atypical—rare exceptions or the outcome of hormonal abnormalities.
All that changed when the international team of researchers led by Karan Odom surveyed the occurrence of female song in 1,141 species from all over the world. The team suspected that male-only song was not the whole story by any stretch. Most songbird species live in tropical regions, which have been less studied. And female song is more common in Australia and surrounding areas, where songbirds originated. There, it’s a much more egalitarian setup. Sure enough, the results of the study, published in 2014, showed that female song occurs in more than two-thirds of surveyed songbird species and families—and that it’s structurally similar to male songs (long and complex) and used for similar purposes. In the songs of male and female superb starlings of eastern Africa, for instance, there’s no difference in the structure or the number of motifs that each sex sings. Both sexes in this highly social species sing all year long and may do so to signal identity and establish rank within their groups. The study made it clear: Birdsong is not just a male thing. And elaborate song did not evolve just through sexual selection—females choosing males for their vocal prowess—but through the broader process of social selection: both sexes competing for food, nest sites, territories, and mates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf9GVLuFo1Y
whipbird 叫起来好有意思啊，真的像甩鞭子
MEPHISTOPHELES:
[…]
Es scheint, die Frau ist nicht zu Hause?
DIE TIERE:
Beim Schmause,
Aus dem Haus
Zum Schornstein hinaus!
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wie lange pflegt sie wohl zu schwärmen?
DIE TIERE:
So lange wir uns die Pfoten wärmen.
Pfoten wärmen 可爱死了！
烦死了学校邮箱总是收到垃圾诈骗邮件
今天学到的词：
Katzenwäsche：猫洗指的是用水很少的、不仔细的清洁。
我对谐音梗欲罢不能
Er beugte sich vor und streckte ihr langsam Zunge entgegen. Er ließ sie auf- und abflappen wie einen gefangenen Schmetterling
Sie kann sich so viel Zeit mit dem Abschied lassen wie die Bäume, die sich dem Jahr entziehen, jeder mit seiner eigenen Geschwindigkeit. Den Ahorn hat die Kälte schon erfasst, während in den Linden noch der Sommer steckt.
为什么折腾毛象的各位站长都说自己人菜瘾大？我看大家都挺厉害的
我折腾毛象的时候复习了好多 regex，不然真是看不懂，什么 /(?:^|[^\/\)\w])#/ /\\vec\s*{[^\}]+}/ 什么的
https://m.cmx.im/@pattypoem/107225794710592652
啊啊有些人写 slides 能不能写清楚一点啊，1000s of programs, 我以为是 1000 seconds ，心想这啥玩意儿，结果是 thousands…好好拼写不可以吗…
还有 A or B (C)，我不明白这个 C 到底是只针对 B 还是针对 A or B 啊
感觉不用买高价牛肉卷了上上次跟教授说我的下一步计划，一是解决基础问题，二是扩大应用面，教授回复：嗯，我也觉得下一步应该首先扩大应用面。
上次教授又问到应用面做得怎么样了，我说我现在还是想先搞基础的东西。教授说：嗯，下次开会给我们展示一下你应用面的进展。
教授是只听得见他想听到的吧
太多想干的事情了怎么办啊，我工作之外的兴趣怎么这么广泛，难以想象我竟然有一段时间对什么都不感兴趣
我突然想起来电影千星之城里面为了清路而毁掉途经的星球的灵感是不是来自银河系漫游指南？但是在千星之城里看到这个情节我的感觉是：好残忍！好过分！在银河系漫游指南里我的感觉是：好好笑！哈哈哈！
