Superfast muscles in songbirds

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A male European starling sits on a statue and sings in San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Credit: Coen Elemans University of Utah
A male European starling sits on a statue and sings in San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Credit: Coen Elemans, University of Utah

Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye – placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers found.


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