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November 03, 1974

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NOVA

Why Do Birds Sing? #S02E01

55 min 1974 5 months ago

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55m 1974 47

NOVA S02 E01 1974

Why Do Birds Sing?

NOVA · Season 2, Episode 1

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.

Episode 1 of Season 2 from NOVA — available to stream in HD on any device.

Country United States

Genre

Documentary

Released

03 Mar, 1974

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1 Why Do Birds Sing? 2 How Much Do You Smell? 3 The Hunting Of The Quark 4 The Secrets Of Sleep 5 Inside the Golden Gate 6 The Men Who Painted Caves 7 Red Sea Coral 8 War From the Air 9 What Time is Your Body? 10 The Rise And Fall Of DDT 11 Take the World From Another Point of View 12 The Lysenko Affair 13 The Tuaregs 14 The Plutonium Connection 15 The Other Way 16 The Lost World Of The Maya 17 Will The Fishing Have to Stop?

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