This unbelievably wonderful bird language. Vegan deviled “egg” recipe.

Monday morning. It’s red again. I brake  before a pedestrian crossing. Everyone is in a hurry. The crow planed down from the top of the traffic light and, pacing beautifully, begins to cross the street along the pedestrian crossing with the great confidence. She turns her head and looks at me through the front window.

“Incredible” – sweeps in the head. “The crow knows that the street must be crossed by pedestrian crossing to the green light.”

I read in my childhood that crows can count, but this bird deeply impressed my imagination.

A few years ago, US neuroscientists found that  despite their relatively small brain size, birds have primate -like  number of neurons in the forebrain, an area responsible for intellectual behavior and cognitive abilities.

And this is an extraordinary beauty of singing. When I hear a beautiful bird trill, I like to whistle back to a singer. And in response, I hear a variation on the proposed musical theme.

The birds have an unique  a vocal apparatus to be able sing  and imitate sounds. The chick starts to learn singing early in the nesting childhood from the father, and many birds then can learn new melodies later during adulthood.

Singing is used primarily to attract females and to protect the territory, voice signals are intended for communication: call-up or warning messages.

Chickens, for example, developed various signals in response to the approach of air and land predators, and respond appropriately.

Birds living in one area can  develop their own dialect. Birds well distinguish voice signals, which allows them to recognize each other by voice. Many birds nesting in the colonies so recognize their chicks.

Many birds are able to give signals by a duet. Often, such duos are so synchronized that they sound like one voice signal. In territorial songbirds, birds are more likely to countesing to when they have been aroused by simulated intrusion into their territory. This implies a role in intraspecies aggressive competition. Some birds are excellent vocal mimics. In some tropical species, mimics such as the drongos may have a role in the formation of mixed – species foraging flocks.

Recent researches shows that the bird language is endowed with a grammatical structure (in parrots and starlings, for example).

Some birds, such as parrots, can imitate human language. And not only. Harvard researcher Professor Irene Pepperberg together with Professor of Phycology  Ken Nakayama demonstrated  that parrots can understand and reasonably respond in human language, they  possess the intelligence of a 6-year-old child. Irene believes that

“The human language evolved from gestures, combinations of gestures and combinations of vocalization, through the evolution of mirror neurons, and that birds demonstrate the best model for the language evolution.”

By the way, in old times in Russia scouts and watchmen used “bird language”, imitating the bird voices. Still today in the Turkish montains app 10 thousand people communicate in the “bird language” kush dili, where words and letters are converted into whistles.

Birds are very sociable and live an active social life.

Chickens, for example, are able to perform arithmetic operations, plan the future, protect their babies, possess the skills of manipulation that McCiavelli could envy. And chickens like to cuddle and can purr like kittens.

While I was collecting amazing facts about our feathered friends, I made  vegan deviled eggs, rich with protein.  Apparently  in German they are called “Russian eggs.”

Vegan deviled egg recipe.

Ingredients

BASE

  • Almond or any other plant based mylk – 1 cup
  • Agar agar – 1 tsp

FILLING

  • Avocado – 1 pc
  • Mustard – 1/4-1/2 tsp
  • Lemon juice – 1 tsp
  • Curcuma -1 tsp
  • Ground black pepper

GARNISH

  • Sweet pepper powder
  • Green herbs or chives

Directions

  1. Mix agar- agar into app 1/4 glass of hot water and stir it until agar- agar is fully dissolved.
  2. Bring  almond mylk to a boiling point and mix agar – agar dissolved in water, cook for a minute, stirring constantly. Pour the mass into egg form moulds, let it harden for 15 – 30 minutes  and then place it into freezer for an hour to cool down.
  3. Spoon avocado and mash it well with mustard, lemon juice, curcuma, pepper and any of your favourites spices (or mix in a blender)
  4. Get bases from the fridge, spoon a little bit from the centre to get a space for filling, add filling,
  5. Rinse chives or and your favourite herbs leaves, chop it finely and garnish vegan “eggs” with sweet red pepper and greens.

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2 Comments

  1. Как интересно! В детстве я проводила часть лета у прабабушки с цыплятами. И потом, взрослые уже курицы, пытались запрыгнуть на людей. это я так их приучила к ручкам)))

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