Birds now ‘mocking’ cellphone rings
Posted in Tech by Dan at 11:41 am
This post was published 4 years 4 months 11 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Just when you thought you could escape cell phones by communing with nature . . . you may need to ignore that ringing in the nearby tree.
Arizona mockingbirds are picking up and repeating some cell phone ring tones, said Bob Witzeman, conservation chairman for the Maricopa Audubon Society. You can thank the avian species’ ability to mimic, combined with their exposure to phone-infested public places, he said.
