Did You Know That Chicks Can “Text” Each Other Before Hatching?
Chick no.1🐣 would like to FaceTime📞
🐥🐔 Chickens can communicate through the eggshell, and a little distance can’t stop them. (In fact, most of the birds can pull off the same trick, we’re just making chickens look smart😉)
📲 Bird scientists have found out that skinny, unhatched little chicks can communicate through the eggshell. Like, they’re Facetiming from quarantine? Being a responsible mother, the hen would “reply” messages for the newborn, hinting how this mother/child relationship is gonna work.
Depending on what type of parent they are, the chicks would react correspondingly after birth -
😢If the parents expressed they’d take good care of the child, it would come out as being a goddam crybaby. ’Cause, they know a crying bird gets the worm.
😈In reverse, if the parent made it clear that the bird is on its own no matter what, it’ll come out tough and independent like a badass.
📶 It’s not just the previews of how parenting goes, “text messaging” is also done in a way to alert the chick of a dangerous world. Hens can somehow send alerts to the egg, and the egg would “vibrate” in response as “read.”
The saga goes on. So, according to the study, the scientists got bored and tried to swap eggs from different nests right before hatching. Without any time to communicate, the newborns seemed to be panicking and made terrible decisions.
We always thought that those crazily chirping babies in the nest just knew how to ask for food. This experiment suggests that they only learned that through copying the parents before birth.
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