Notes on A Revolting Development.
The quote is from the British ornithologist Edmund Selous (1857-1934), and I found it quoted in several places but without an originating source; one example is Vallee 2021 listed below. "Susurration" was one of Terry Pratchett's favorite words. He was right: it is a good word.
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The quote is from the British ornithologist Edmund Selous (1857-1934), and I found it quoted in several places but without an originating source; one example is Vallee 2021 listed below. "Susurration" was one of Terry Pratchett's favorite words. He was right: it is a good word.
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- Gill, N.S. “Who Built the Trojan Horse?” Humanities, History and Culture. ThoughtCo, 23 Feb 2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/who-built-the-trojan-horse-121304
- King, Andrew J. and David J.T. Sumpter. "Murmurations." Current Biology, vol. 22, no. 4, 2012, pp. R112-R14.
- Levin, Samuel R. et al. "Darwin's Aliens." International Journal of Astrobiology, vol. 18, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-9, Cambridge Core, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000362
- Oakes, Kelly. "Corpse Stars Could Nurture Life on Alien Planets." New Scientist, vol. 215, no. 2878, 2012, p. 8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(12)62102-2
- Pratchett, Terry. "The Choice Word." A Slip of the Keyboard, Doubleday, 2014. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Slip_of_the_Keyboard/Yfo5AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
- Sinha, Ankita and Vaibhav Manocha. "Records of Murmuration Behaviour in Bank Myna from Haryana, India." Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12595-021-00430-1
- Solkaer, Soren. "Gazing at the 'Black Sun': The Transfixing Beauty of Starling Murmurations." New York Times, April 4 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/travel/starling-murmurations.html
- Vallee, Mickey. "Animal, Body, Data: Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming in-Formation." Body & Society, vol. 27, no. 2, 2021, pp. 83-106, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x21992846
- “Waldo.” Science Fiction Dictionary, Technovelgy. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=23
- Yi, Shouliang et al. "Ultraselective Glassy Polymer Membranes with Unprecedented Performance for Energy-Efficient Sour Gas Separation." Science Advances, vol. 5, no. 5, 2019, p. eaaw5459, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw5459
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