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<v Speaker 1>It's time for strange science, and we'll go with that. Strange.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like weird science, but strange.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I hate to steal the puffin story, but I'm gonna.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm back. Yes, I don't know what happened, but it

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<v Speaker 2>got rid of me, and I thought my way back

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<v Speaker 2>to give the puffin news good.

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<v Speaker 3>I see that it was the puffins that drew you

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<v Speaker 3>out of your slumber.

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<v Speaker 2>I love puffins, right, I just loved the idea of puffins.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was very old when I first saw a

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<v Speaker 2>puffin up in Alaska, and I was startled because I

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<v Speaker 2>thought puffins, when you'd see a picture of a puffin,

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<v Speaker 2>were these big, massive birds. And when I saw them,

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<v Speaker 2>they were these little baby birds. I had no idea

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<v Speaker 2>they were so small. Did you make that same mistake

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<v Speaker 2>or no.

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<v Speaker 3>I have never seen a puffin in real life that

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<v Speaker 3>I can recall. Actually, I probably haven't a zoo somewhere,

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<v Speaker 3>but I don't think i've I've definitely not seen them

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<v Speaker 3>in the wild.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a small rocky island off Iceland that's home to

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<v Speaker 2>the world's largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. When breeding

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<v Speaker 2>season is in full go there are about one point

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<v Speaker 2>five million adults that pair up and nestle into burrows

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<v Speaker 2>on the grassy seaside slopes. Once the chicks hatch, puffin

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<v Speaker 2>moms and dads devote about six weeks to caring for

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<v Speaker 2>their babies. They bring them meals of small fish, they

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<v Speaker 2>fend off predators like seagulls, and then by August or

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<v Speaker 2>early September, the little pufflings are mature enough to live

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<v Speaker 2>on their own. Their instinct is to head for the

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<v Speaker 2>open ocean, where they will spend most of their lives.

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<v Speaker 2>But sometimes they lose their way. Really, I mean, this

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<v Speaker 2>town near Iceland or in Iceland, only got electricity about

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<v Speaker 2>a century ago, So sometimes the puffins take a wrong

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<v Speaker 2>turn because they're dad's by the night lights.

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<v Speaker 3>Well they talk about this. It's not puffing or puffin patrol.

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<v Speaker 3>It's the puffling patrol searches for and rescues these birds

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<v Speaker 3>that have gone astray.

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<v Speaker 2>The baby puffing puffins.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but it's funny. They call it puffling puffling. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>you're gonna have to get a little shirt, says I.

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<v Speaker 3>Puffle for food? Or will puffling puffling? Not puffling puffling? Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>I get it, like baby puffing, got it? Never mind?

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<v Speaker 1>Got it, got it, I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at you. You made an error. I asked for

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<v Speaker 2>an error four hours ago and I finally got one. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't a heroin needle in your arm.

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<v Speaker 1>No, but the day is young.

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<v Speaker 2>Or boy.

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<v Speaker 3>Sciences have developed a new artificially intelligence powered modeling method

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<v Speaker 3>that mimics how birds produce song, similar to how large

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<v Speaker 3>language models like CHATCHBT would generate human sentences. They said

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<v Speaker 3>they train these AI models on birds song recordings, and

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<v Speaker 3>the model can successfully recreate sequences of Bengalese finch songs,

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<v Speaker 3>revealing important insights into how birds structure their vocalizations.

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<v Speaker 2>That we Bengalese finch, that.

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<v Speaker 3>We birds and humans can arrange our vocal expressions in

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<v Speaker 3>very structured ways. When it comes to human speech, the

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<v Speaker 3>words follow specific grammatical rules of birds sing in organized

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<v Speaker 3>syllabic patterns, which is a strange way to put it.

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<v Speaker 2>So look up what the Bengalese finch sounds like.

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<v Speaker 1>It sounds a little bit like this. I'm gary, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a carbon based life form. Get it. Strange science, I

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<v Speaker 1>get it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's very funny.

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<v Speaker 1>And listen.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know exactly where it started, but this was

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<v Speaker 3>the first one of the day because I don't remember.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm gary.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a good sense of knowing.

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<v Speaker 3>Where I'm at. And that started an absolute waterfall of

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<v Speaker 3>those types of calls.

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<v Speaker 1>For some reason.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm giddy.

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<v Speaker 2>This may be better than the apple day. It may

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<v Speaker 2>be better. Yeah, how did that? Was that just that

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<v Speaker 2>guy's own take on something that that you were it's

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<v Speaker 2>giving yourself a pat on the back, froving good direction?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, and it wasn't. I didn't say I don't think.

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<v Speaker 3>I said I have good directions. I know where I'm going.

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<v Speaker 3>I said, my wife tells me often that I.

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<v Speaker 2>Know No, no, no, no. The first time you did I did.

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<v Speaker 2>You said I have a good sense of direction. And

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<v Speaker 2>I specifically remember it because you threw your your wife

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<v Speaker 2>under the bus at the same time she walked twelve

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<v Speaker 2>miles in the wrong direction, and and and you said,

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<v Speaker 2>you said I have a good sense of the direction.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I didn't take it as a look at me,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so wonderful, but apparently that guy did. But the

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<v Speaker 2>second time you talked about it, you did say, my

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<v Speaker 2>wife does say that I have a good sense of direction.

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<v Speaker 1>The yeah,