Storing data in a bird?

Turns out you can teach a starling (a bird) to remember and recall audio. If you look at the audio as a spectrogram, you can treat is as an image.

It means you could record, say, an image containing a passphrase to your seed

in a ... 🐦.

https://youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?t=814

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How long does it live, though? Seems like holding for a few cycles would require a fair number of birds.

2 - 5 years in the wild, observed up to 20. Perhaps one starling can teach his offspring?

What you’re describing is a birbchain.

what do we know about bird dementia? ;)

hehe, nothing