Music & the Arts

<h3>Music and Song</h3>

<p>Humans enjoy and appreciate <strong>birdsong</strong>. Music or song (repeated pleasant sounds) are not unique to humans. Multiple bird species can mimic other birds: the bowerbird, lyrebird; mockingbird, thrasher and other mimids; ravens, crows, parrots can mimic human speach.</p>

<p>Humans create and appreciate sculpture, architecture, fine art, the decorative arts.</p>

<p>The male bower bird creates what can only be described as decorative or fine art to attract the female.</p>

<h3>Dance</h3>

<p>Humans appreciate and participate in dance. Many bird species have dance as an important part of the mating ritual: Clark's grebes, various birds of paradise, etc.</p>