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Animals in the Amazon Use ‘the Internet’ to Communicate. Here’s How It Works.
Birds and monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon pass predator warnings from species to species like a rainforest panic chain.
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Do you remember the “Gondor calls for aid” scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King? The beacons are lighting up one by one across mountaintops, each signaling danger to the next. Something similar is happening deep in the Amazon rainforest, except with sound.
According to a study published in Current Biology and detailed in The Conversation by Ettore Camerlenghi and Ari Martínez, birds and monkeys are part of what the researchers call an “internet of the forest,” a communication network that spreads predator warnings across species.
Researchers went to the Peruvian........