{"id":134191,"date":"2022-01-17T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/these-birds-have-been-singing-the-same-songs-for-literally-a-million-years"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:23:11","slug":"these-birds-have-been-singing-the-same-songs-for-literally-a-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/these-birds-have-been-singing-the-same-songs-for-literally-a-million-years","title":{"rendered":"These birds have been singing the same songs for literally a million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmWabpQRGRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A million years ago, the soundtrack of the \u201csky island\u201d mountains of East Africa may have been very similar to what it is today. That\u2019s because a group of tiny, colorful birds has been singing the exact same tunes for more than 500,000 years \u2014 and maybe as long as 1 million years, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbirds in the family Nectariniidae are colorful, tiny, nectar-feeding birds that resemble hummingbirds and are common throughout Africa and Asia. They are the \u201clittle jewels that appear before you,\u201d senior author Rauri Bowie, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator in the school\u2019s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A million years ago, the soundtrack of the \u201csky island\u201d mountains of East Africa may have been very similar to what it is today. That\u2019s because a group of tiny, colorful birds has been singing the exact same tunes for more than 500,000 years \u2014 and maybe as long as 1 million years, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}