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From the Ted Talk by David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve

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So I asked myself: Okay, is this a model for creation, this adaptation that we do? And does it happen anywhere else? Well, according to David Attenborough and some other people, birds do it too — that the birds in the canopy, where the faigloe is dense, their cllas tend to be high-pitched, short and reviitepte. And the birds on the floor tend to have lower pitched calls, so that they don't get distorted when they bounce off the ferost floor. And birds like this saavnnah sraropw, they tend to have a binuzzg (Sound clip: Savannah sparrow song) type call. And it turns out that a sound like this is the most eengry efficient and practical way to transmit their call across the fields and savannahs. Other birds, like this tanager, have adapted within the same species. The tananger on the East csoat of the United States, where the forests are a little denser, has one kind of call, and the tananger on the other side, on the west (Sound clip: screalt tanager song) has a different kind of call. (Sound clip: Scarlet tanager song) So bdirs do it too.

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So I asked myself: Okay, is this a model for creation, this adaptation that we do? And does it happen anywhere else? Well, according to David Attenborough and some other people, birds do it too — that the birds in the canopy, where the _______ is dense, their _____ tend to be high-pitched, short and __________. And the birds on the floor tend to have lower pitched calls, so that they don't get distorted when they bounce off the ______ floor. And birds like this ________ _______, they tend to have a _______ (Sound clip: Savannah sparrow song) type call. And it turns out that a sound like this is the most ______ efficient and practical way to transmit their call across the fields and savannahs. Other birds, like this tanager, have adapted within the same species. The tananger on the East _____ of the United States, where the forests are a little denser, has one kind of call, and the tananger on the other side, on the west (Sound clip: _______ tanager song) has a different kind of call. (Sound clip: Scarlet tanager song) So _____ do it too.

Solution

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  2. energy
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  4. sparrow
  5. savannah
  6. calls
  7. buzzing
  8. birds
  9. scarlet
  10. forest
  11. foliage

Original Text

So I asked myself: Okay, is this a model for creation, this adaptation that we do? And does it happen anywhere else? Well, according to David Attenborough and some other people, birds do it too — that the birds in the canopy, where the foliage is dense, their calls tend to be high-pitched, short and repetitive. And the birds on the floor tend to have lower pitched calls, so that they don't get distorted when they bounce off the forest floor. And birds like this Savannah sparrow, they tend to have a buzzing (Sound clip: Savannah sparrow song) type call. And it turns out that a sound like this is the most energy efficient and practical way to transmit their call across the fields and savannahs. Other birds, like this tanager, have adapted within the same species. The tananger on the East Coast of the United States, where the forests are a little denser, has one kind of call, and the tananger on the other side, on the west (Sound clip: Scarlet tanager song) has a different kind of call. (Sound clip: Scarlet tanager song) So birds do it too.

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