by Credit: YouTube/Benn Jordan
A scientist has saved a picture in the brain of a bird in which it is assumed that he is considered the first case of the world of data in an animal.
Benn Jordan, a musician and acoustic scholar, was able to “write” the picture – a drawing of a bird – to a European star by converting it into an audio file and playing the songbird.
The bird was able to repeat the sound with remarkable accuracy so that the image could be recreated when using computer software.
“As far as I know, this can be technically the first time that someone has saved data in an animal,” said Jordan.
Credit: YouTube/Benn Jordan
Images and potentially other types of information can be converted into sounds using a spectral synthesizer, which represents sound waves in a visual format, which is referred to as a spectrogram.
Mr. Jordan pulled a simple picture of a bird and converted it into a sound: an electronic split-second second swepe, which would be meaningless for the human ear.
He played it to the Starling, a lifebird called “The Mund”, who could later repeat the sound loyal.
When the staring of the starling was converted into a spectrogram again, it looked remarkably similar to the drawing of Mr. Jordan.
The bird had effectively saved the picture as an audio signature, as was how it could be saved on a hard drive like you and zeros.
It is known that European stars have extraordinary mimicry skills and can create complex acoustic structures, which means that they are clearly able to repeat the unconventional sound that is converted into a spectrogram by converting an image.
Mr. Jordan said the starling effectively saved 176 kilobytes of data. In theory, other types of data such as text could be converted into birds and “saved”.
“The fact that you can set up a speaker in your garden and possibly save any amount of data in song birds,” he said.
Starling often store a large repertoire of songs to impress potential partners. According to a study, stars from adults have up to 67.
Researchers have searched for alternatives to save data because the amount of information created explodes.
Microsoft has experimented with storing data in DNA and etched glass.
Audio signals were previously used for transferring data. In the past, advertising companies have experimented with ultrasound tunnels that could be recognized by smartphone apps to determine whether a person is observed.
