NEW YORK: A new study exposed that drunken birds act just like their human counterpart.
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University gave juice spiked with alcohol to zebra finches.
They found that once the birds got buzzed, they started to slur their songs, just like how tipsy people slur their speech.Researchers hope their work helps them understand how alcohol affects humans.
Researchers have always wanted to understand the effects of alcohol on the complex system of speech. They turned to birds, because it is difficult to perform the necessary studies on humans. The zebra finches were ideal for the experiment as they have been often used by researchers because the humans and zebra finches share a number of similarities. For example, both the species learn how to talk by hearing the sound sequences around them. In humans, children learn it from their parents and zebra finches learn it from their fathers. Only male zebra finches can sing.
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