Shane Bergin
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128 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Shane Bergin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I thought they would be much more common because we all know about the one off the coast of Mexico that's thought to have caused the extinction of most dinosaurs.
But there are very few like that.
And it's because of erosion that
We don't see them anymore.
So they're very, very rare to find them.
So I'm not quite sure.
And the paper didn't explain why this one has been preserved, but it is still there.
Yeah, let's hope no big country wants to go and just buy Antarctica.
Let's hope for that.
Just saying.
You're a fool, Golda, you're okay.
And there's this amazing prize called the Collar Doolittle Prize.
Isn't that a great name?
It is.
I guess in the name, it's about talking to animals, right?
So it was founded two years ago or three years ago by a British billionaire who's really interested in our capacity to have two-way communication.
conversations with animals and this year's recipient is a remarkable person a woman called Julie Ellie and she received $100,000 for figuring out the vocalizations of zebra finch she chose zebra finch which are a beautiful bird because they're very chatty Jessamyn told me earlier her mum used to have a zebra finch so you know how talkative they are
She listened to them and recorded data for over 10 years with these birds.
She classified the kind of the noises, the tweets they were making based on the various situations that they were in.
She used machine learning to analyze what each bit was saying and figured out that they have words, and they also have kind of their own play on the words.
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