Wedding Song

Wholesale Poisoning at a Wedding Feast

at the wedding and sat down to the banquet in the afternoon ; of these 110 fewer than forty were subsequently seized with symptoms of irritant poisoning, the time of onset varying from four to sixteen hours after the meal. Five of the persons so attacked had died up to the date when the facts were placed 011 record, and as that was only some ten days after the occurrence, it is possible that ot...

AvMA's silver wedding, and a funeral.

Constructing Wedding Seating Plans: A Tabu Subject

This paper examines an interesting combinatorial optimisation problem that generalises both the graph colouring and k-partition problems. The problem has an interesting practical application in the construction of wedding seating plans, where we seek to assign equal numbers of guests to tables such that they are sat near friends and, perhaps more importantly, kept away from their enemies. We de...

Song-type matching between neighbouring song sparrows.

In our study population, neighbouring song sparrows typically share two or more of their 6-10 song types. In an earlier experiment, we found that established neighbours typically reply to playback of neighbour-shared song with a different song they share with that neighbour ('repertoire matching'), rather than with the same song ('type matching') or with a nonshared song. In the present experim...

Late song learning in song sparrows

In many oscine species, young males learn songs that match those of their first breeding-season neighbours. Because sharing songs with neighbours may be advantageous, selection should favour birds that retain the capacity to memorize new songs later in their first year as the birds cannot know for sure who their neighbours will be until spring. We investigated whether song sparrows, Melospiza m...