[x3iv130f]

I had to stop reading this article when it used the term "unnatural quiet".

It is the noise that is unnatural, not the quiet.

Ancient cities teemed with birds and bird songs, so much so that birds were often featured heavily in their creative works.

See: https://aeon.co/essays/the-ancient-world-teemed-with-birds-n...

Now, the artificial has intruded itself into the natural world. When I open the window of my urban apartment, the bird songs I hear have melodies like jackhammers and car alarms. The birds in cities now make the same sounds as the cities.

The natural world has adapted, and in doing so has become the same as the artificial.

[grayfaced]

Birds here still mimic the 90s car alarm (You know the one that cycles between patterns every few seconds) even though I haven't heard that particular car alarm in at least a decade. How long will it take for birds to change that song?

I'm near a military base and I've never heard birds take on the bugle songs that come over loudspeakers (e.g. revelry, taps). I've also never heard birds sing the Ice Cream truck song. What makes some certain sounds so impressionable on birds?

[Dalewyn]

>What makes some certain sounds so impressionable on birds?

I'd hazard a guess it's something similar to how some patterns of noise to us are music, while other patterns of noise are akin to nails screeching across blackboard.

I don't know the science behind it, but if humans find appeal in certain noises then it won't surprise me if our peers upon this planet also do.

[_def]

I'm not sure but to me it sounds like there is some similarity in how a bird modulates sounds and how primitive synthesizers do it, so I guess those sounds are easier to mimic or something

[feet]

You may be shocked to learn that humans are natural. We and our behaviors are part of nature

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

The sounds humans make are. The sounds our machines make are not.

[drewcoo]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnatural

Words. People use them. They have different meanings.

[BuyMyBitcoins]

You can also use words to express your criticism in a more constructive way instead of being snarky and talking down to the GP like they are an imbecile.

[Guthur]

There is nothing unnatural about our world, stop maintaining this anti human view point, are ants or termites unnatural for example?

This view that humanity is evil is the true racism.

[BLKNSLVR]

There is an underlying anti-nature about the way humans are going about our expansion, however.

[DangitBobby]

Humans have plenty of allies, and we don't need your defense. It's not like we are going to be "criticized for wiping our 60% of all known species on the planet" into extinction.