Hello everyone, how’s your new year?
This is Sputniko!’s first blog entry in 2010…sooooo futuristic and exciting!!
こんにちはー スプ子です。 ２０１０年初ブログだね！
２０１０年ってなんか未来っぽいな〜 スプ子Yearって感じだな〜
This week I visited crow intelligence specialists Nathan Emery and Nicky Clayton in Cambridge University – Nicky and Nathan showed me their beautiful crows, rooks, jackdaws and eurasian jays in their aviary, it was fantastic!
今週はケンブリッジ大学動物学部のカラス・スペシャリスト、ネーサン・エメリー教授とニッキー・クレイトン教授を訪ねにいってきましたヨ！
We had lunch discussing very interesting topics on bird vocalizations, trans-gender fish, Darwinian dance and tool making crows… Nathan and Nicky also gave me great advice on the development of ‘Crowbot’, a crow-language-speaking robot I’m working on at the moment. Its initial test video is below!
ランチを食べながら「チェーンソーの鳴きまねをする鳥」「性別を変化させる魚」「ダーウィン進化論をテーマにしたコンテポラリーダンス」「道具を作るカレドニアのカラス」などなどマニアックな動物話を喋りまくってくれる二人。話が面白すぎて、数回失神しそうになった。
実は今ちょうど、動物とコミュニケーション出来るようなロボットを作ってるんだよね。それでいまは、割と複雑な言語を持っているカラス種との交信を試みています。
下がカラス種と交信する「カラスボット」のテスト風景。
カラスに「こんにちはー」って話しかけて、返事もらってる．．．はず？（笑
Thanks to Cesar Harada for crowbot build help and Matt Kamen for help with video recording!
The aviary visit was full of endless discovery – below are some of the many intriguing facts about crows
二人に大学の鳥園にも連れて行ってもらって、めいっぱい鳥を見てきました。
以下、鳥に関する驚きのトリビアだー！！！！
-It’s only in the last 12 years that scientists began to discover that crows are very intelligent – tests show that they’re as intelligent or more intelligent than chimpanzees. Compared to the chimpanzees, crows are more capable of social communication and reading other animals’ minds.
■カラスはチンパンジーと同等、もしくはそれ以上の頭脳を持つ。カラスはチンパンジーと比べ仲間の意思を読み取る能力や社交能力が高い。
-It was probably a chance event that the earth became ‘the planet of the apes’, not ‘the planet of the birds’. Some scientists call crows “feathered apes” and chimpanzees “hairy crows”!
■地球が「鳥の惑星」でなく「猿の惑星」になったのは、ダーウィン進化の小さな偶然である。つまり地球上で最も高等な頭脳を持つ動物種は猿から進化した人間でなく鳥から進化した他の動物になっていたかもしれない。
-Crows make tools : some crows in Caledonia make a whole tool kit for pulling insects out from dead logs.
■カラスは道具を作る。特にカレドニアに生息するカラスなどは、虫を切り株から取り出すための道具セットを大きい葉などから作る。
-Crow couples stay together for their whole lives. Studies found that crow couples make a special language only in between themselves – cute!
■カラスのつがいは生涯を共にする。彼らはカップル同士にしか分からない「合い言葉」を作ったりもする。うっわ〜 超キュート〜
-Eurasian jays (a specie of crow) is very good at copying words and sounds – would love to make them sing the lyrics of my new song.
■Eurasian Jay（カケス／カラスの一種）は人の言葉や自然の音を真似するのが非常にうまい。スプ子の新曲歌詞もぜひ歌ってほしいぜ！
-Crows can swap and ‘trade’ food between themselves
■カラスは小さいスケールであれど、食べ物を交換するなど「貿易」するらしい。
Ah, the list is endless.
などなどなど．．．挙げ出したらキリないわ。
Many thanks to Nicky and Nathan who guided me through their wonderful world of birds. I’ll be going back to Cambridge for more visits – hopefully next time with the completed Crowbot version 2.0! 
とりあえず、かなり高いレベルで楽しい一日でした。
カラスボットの制作が一段落した時に、鳥園に戻って色々テストする予定です。親切にしてくれるクレイトン教授とエメリー教授に心から感謝なのです。
そして皆さん。
遅くなっちゃったけど 新年あけましておめでとう！
今年もよろしくねーー 絶好調でいこーねーー！！！
らぶです！！
☆スプ☆
See you all!
xx
Love
*Spu!*
Sputniko! creates machines, films and music exploring technology, feminism and pop culture. Her narrative works are produced via research investigation with scientists and specialists to critically investigate a possible future of human and technology. In 2010, after her graduation from Royal College of Art, Sputniko!'s works were exhibited at the Contemporary Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 2011, she also exhibited her works at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 
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鳥の惑星”””の話大好き！！
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Crow Army Pic
When I say a million crows. I mean a million freakin crows! Every tree and every power line is filled within this mini-mall parking lot.
I’ve always thought about if it might be possible to communicate with the birds to follow you to a different location.
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