{"id":2358,"date":"2018-09-18T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-lovette-lab.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:22:27","slug":"cornell-chronicle-on-our-lyrebird-nsf-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Chronicle on our lyrebird NSF project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Were Australia\u2019s lyrebirds the first \u2018meme generators\u2019?<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"byline\">By Pat Leonard<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"byline date\"> <time>September 17, 2018<\/time> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Superb Lyrebird \u2013 the most astonishing animal mimic in the world \u2013 has been communicating with memes through song and dance for millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese days we usually think of memes as bits of culture transmitted through social media, like little dancing bananas,\u201d says Irby Lovette, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\u2019s Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program. \u201cBut the lyrebirds are spreading memes too. They\u2019re picking up sounds from their environment, incorporating them into their song repertoires, and then learning from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lovette is the Cornell leader of a research project, funded by a $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, to understand the evolution of culture among these avian mimics&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Link to full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2018\/09\/were-australias-lyrebirds-first-meme-generators\">news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2018\/09\/were-australias-lyrebirds-first-meme-generators<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2359\" src=\"https:\/\/live-lovette-lab.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lovette.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917_lyrebird.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were Australia\u2019s lyrebirds the first \u2018meme generators\u2019? 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