{"id":2294,"date":"2025-03-24T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/birds-get-road-rage-due-to-traffic-noise\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:22:20","slug":"birds-get-road-rage-due-to-traffic-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/birds-get-road-rage-due-to-traffic-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds get &#039;road rage&#039; due to traffic noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-24 15:22:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Birds are developing &#8220;road rage&#8221; due to increasing noise levels from traffic.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have found that native species in the Galapagos Islands &#8211; where the population has increased significantly in recent years &#8211; are changing their behaviour as a result of their exposure to cars and lorries.<BR><br \/>\nExperts have discovered that Galapagos yellow warblers exposed to vehicles show heightened levels of aggression.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Caglar Akcay, co-author of the study at Anglia Ruskin University, said: &#8220;Birds use song during territorial defence as an aggressive signal.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, if external noise such as traffic interferes with the signalling, effectively blocking this communication channel, increasing physical aggression would be an appropriate response.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr. Akcay added: &#8220;Even that little experience (of traffic), apparently, has some effect.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We have to think about noise pollution even in places like Galapagos, I think, and the impact of noise pollution on the unique species there.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-24 15:22:19 Birds are developing &#8220;road rage&#8221; due to increasing noise levels from traffic. Scientists have found that native species in the Galapagos Islands &#8211; where the population has increased&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}