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Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s (www.tomshardware.com)
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 89 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, technically it has a built in backdoor...

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 85 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please do not the bird

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do not what the bird?

Complement?

Conflagrate?

Carry in a cute baby stroller?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

commiserate

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Say it ain't so!

I will not go!

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More of a front and back door, if my understanding of a cloaca is correct

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Last time I checked, cloaca was just the back. It is the everything door, though.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, technically the beak connects directly to the cloaca.

[–] druidjaidan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically your mouth connects directly to your asshole...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

People are making crude jokes but the truth is birds do have a back door it is whatever food they find tastiest. Birds are easily bribable like humans or dogs.