Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to bring junk. I'm Amy Barton and I'm Trey skirt and it's time for a brainstorm. So we have the guardian Australia's Instagram account to thank for this brainstorm. I was looking very late one night and the volume was accidentally on and I discovered the white Bellbird, the white Bellbird. Yes. So it's this funny little bird. It's about seven inches or so from beak to tail. It's got this weird wormy waddle hanging down next to its beak and all white Bellbirds can be found in Northern Brazil and Southern Venezuela in the Amazonian cloud forests. A lot of weird things happen in the jungle. A lot of stuff, especially the way it sounds. Okay. That sounds like some sort of crazy European emergency sound like got a weird animal car lard. Yeah, it is a bird. And uh, you can find videos. I'm going to have a link in the show notes. This little bird doesn't look like it's doing anything, but the wait, that beak opens and then the net goes.
Speaker 0 01:11 I would be looking around thinking we've entered a dystopian youth novel. We're going to come across and compound soon. It's lunchtime. It's crazy. You're looking for your car and you're like, Oop, you know, that kind of thing. Well, okay. So now imagine you're a female Bellbird and you've heard the fellow shouting in the forest because he's looking for a lady, right? And you land well, you land pretty close to check him out. And that song that I played that's at about, um, 60 decibels that he's doing, that's decently loud. Right? Okay, well let me, let me, let's, let's go back and break it down. So a library is about 40 decibels. Okay. Three feet from a speaker at a club is about a hundred at 125 to 130. It's super painful to a human being and can cause damage. If you're a female Bellbird you land close to this guy, he faces you and hits you point blank with the 125 decibels. Whoa. Yeah. So that sound right in your face. Wow. Really? Yeah. Holy cow. The Italian job where Seth Green's character wants to buy a stereo so loud, it blows lady's clothes off. But that is the bird version. That is the bird version. He's blowing her feathers right off. Yes. So we'll have to promo social media with that. A quote,
Speaker 0 02:35 they like loud males, maybe it makes their whole body buzz. I know they're like great. Yeah. Cause you do kind of buzz with that kind of volume. Yeah. You know they're in a cloud forest, so it's thick rain forest. You need that volume to be heard. But then the fact that when the female comes, they're that much louder. The females have selected the boys. Wow. All right ladies. Should we listen to it again? Yeah. Okay. Definitely. I can't believe a bird can make that sound. It's kind of metallic. Which, yeah, I, the first time I heard, well the first time I heard it, it was about 1130 at night and I had the volume cranked up all the way. So I guess I was like a female white Bellbird and it did not attract me at all. No. And Chaz about levitated out of bed. Were you in the bedroom? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I'm like, Oh, shove it under the pillow, and he's just, he's just in there shouting away. That little bird. Well, if you'd like to hear more about the Bellbird, go check out those sounds yourself. Play them for your wonderful family. You can visit us at brain junk, podcast.com for Twitter. You can find us at my brain junk and on Facebook and Instagram as brain junk podcast trace, and I will catch you next time when we share more of everything you never knew you wanted to know, and I guarantee you will not be bored.
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