Care to listen to chinese alligator bellowing on helium?
came across this .mov file in a research paper: A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian.
{Stephan A. Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, W. Tecumseh Fitch Journal of Experimental Biology 2015 218: 2442-2447; doi: 10.1242/jeb.119552)
two calls in ambient air are followed by two calls in heliox
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 18 Sep 2020, 4:52,
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Needs a follow up to test if other alligators find the recording funny
I see this paper won an Ig Nobel. They may have been inspired by Schrödinger's cat to put an animal in a box, but without all that quantum shite
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 18 Sep 2020, 7:13,
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yeah, that's how I found it. burrowed in to the published paper and found they had the file in one of their appendices
one of the other winners was a researcher who made a knife out of frozen faeces to see if it could cut pig skin. Turns out it couldn't, though maybe he needed to lick the blade first
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 18 Sep 2020, 8:47,
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This learned discussion must have swayed the Ig Nobel judges:
b3ta.com/links/Human_faeces_cannot_be_made_into_frozen_knives
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 18 Sep 2020, 9:58,
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