Take the 2-minute tour ×  Why are birds never out of key when
they sing?   How is this possible?  share|improve this question
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this answer   Any similarity between birdsong and modern music
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this answer    Birds themselves communicate on different
bandwidths of frequency.       share|improve this answer  It
seems to me that Birds do not sound out of key or off pitch,
what have you, when they sign, because they are higher up in the
register where the scale length is getting tighter and it is
harder to distinguish off key notes since the intervals are
smaller. They have a harmonic overtone and this causes it to be
more melodic in the sense that it is more harmonic even though
we know melody and harmony are not the same. Reminds me of a
story about the Fox and the Crow and the Fox gets the Crow in
the Tree to sing for him so that he drops his cheese. Suddenly I
feel I may have fallen victim t