![]() ![]() So never underestimate the power of a great EP. Personally this year, I have probably listened to the EPs on this list just as much, if not more so, than my AOTY contenders. And in terms of quality, they can be just as good if not better than a full length album. Why? Because the short length of an EP in some situations might be preferred by the listener. ![]() I hate that EPs generally get overlooked on most AOTY/Year End lists. (Technically I think it’s UMEPOTY, but you get it.) And since we’re celebrating the best releases of the year this week, I had to share my Top 5 Underground Metal EPs of 2021 with you. That’s a big part of why I wanted to focus on more underground related pieces like Unsigned & Unleashed. Underground metal is one of those things that is very near and dear to my heart. That idea of supporting artists early on that are working so hard to create great music is part of what makes the heavy music community so special. But we metalheads love to discover bands before anyone else. Studies have shown that this type of fragmentation can hinder cultural transmission between songbird populations.įarnsworth says he hopes future research will “evolve from this line of work,” adding “the notion of passing down cultural traditions is obviously something we as humans hold dear, and seeing the potential for it in other organisms is super cool.There’s so much music out there. ![]() Introducing man-made barriers, such as cities, roads, and plantations, into an animal's habitat, can turn a unified population into a collection of isolated groups that rarely interact. “It’s really exciting,” says Andrew Farnsworth, an ornithologist with Cornell University.“Having this approach and these findings as a baseline against which to compare a changing reality of habitat fragmentation and loss is really important.” This study is among the first to assess the longevity of song traditions within a bird species, and its findings provide a baseline for scientists to measure the impact of habitat loss on the cultural evolution of songbirds. The song-types that you hear in the marshes of North America today may well have been there 1,000 years ago,” says Lachlan. “With those two ingredients together, you end up with traditions that are really stable. Lachlan says that the combination of the birds’ “conformist bias” and their ability to so precisely mimic their elders allows them to create traditions that persist unchanged for centuries. “We were able to show that swamp sparrows very rarely make mistakes when they learn their songs, and they don't just learn songs at random, they pick up commoner songs rather than rarer songs,” says Robert Lachlan, a biologist at Queen Mary University of London and the study’s lead author. The team reports the findings Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications. Now, scientists suggest that these sparrows preserve their cultural traditions as efficiently as humans do, if not more so. The young sparrows mimic the songs sung by their elders so accurately that their musical repertoire has remained relatively unchanged for all that time. Scientists have discovered evidence that the American swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana, has likely been singing the same songs for a millennium. In fact, they haven’t changed their set list in more than 1,000 years, according to a new study. These little brown birds may know just a few songs, but they know them well. Every summer, the melodic whistles of thousands of American swamp sparrows echo across North America’s wetlands. ![]()
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