Why not a 'Twitter' for songbirds?

BANGALORE, INDIA: Forget Shashi Tharoor and and his 'cattle class' tweets! From the domain of the human beings the social networking technology is entering the animal domain, the domain of the real 'tweeters'.

And this one aims to find out which songbirds spend time together and reveal how they learn their tunes.

The new technology, called Encounternet (http://encounternet.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) is a network of long-life wireless transceiver tag devices that can be worn by small animals, says the website.

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