Ellen Wallace
Swiss research on noise shows more reasons to avoid it
Last week Swiss researchers showed the world, for the first time, that living too close to an airport’s noisy flight path can take years off your life. This week Swiss researchers are showing us that male birds sing at a higher pitch when they are in noisy urban areas, apparently so the females can hear them better. But the females don’t like the sound they make. Fortunately for the bird population that was studied, the males piped down and sang lower on weekends, when the motorway near which they live became quieter.
Translate that research on noise pollution to the human population and maybe guys looking for girls should slow down, be a little quieter.
And fellas, when you promise her the moon, don’t say you’ll get her there from a home near the airport, no matter how convenient that idea is to you, for your fast-paced, travelling life.
GenevaLunch, 18 October 2010.
Filed under: Society
Tags: airports, birds, flight paths, noise pollution, pitch, research, songs, Switzerland
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