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The rising sun marks the start of a new day, and in Africa's Kalahari Desert, the wildlife is already awake and busy.
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This masked weaver bird scans the area, carefully collecting blades of dry grass to build his nest.
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Most birds simply build what looks like a loose bowl of twigs, but this is a weaver bird,
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and like his namesake, he weaves his nests into intricate structures.
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These chambers hang from trees, an impressive feat of avian architecture.
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Their cousins, the sociable weaver birds, take nest building even further.
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Together, our colony will build a huge compound nest containing more than 100 chambers, each one housed under a single roof.
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It's a bird apartment complex, one of the world's largest nests, and it isn't just for breeding.
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Weavers live in them throughout the year, some nests lasting for even a century, as it passes from generation to generation.
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To craft his nest, the weaver bird loops to gather blades of grass around a tree branch.
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Having created the base, he then builds the hollow body before adding the entrance last.
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He'll need around a thousand blades to make a strong nest, and this may take him a few weeks to complete.
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Some species design domes, while others prefer tubed entrances.
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But nests of the sociable weaver birds aren't made in the same way.
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They don't so much weave them, rather they stack them with whatever plant material they can find.
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True weaver birds are only found in the subfamily Plessione.
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In the whole weaver family, there are over 100 species, most of which live in sub -Saharan Africa.
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The family originated in the mid -Miosyn around 15 million years ago.
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It was a time when African ecosystems made the shift from forests to grasslands,
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allowing early weavers to spread and radiate into the species seen today.
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Although some aren't true weavers, they can all build elaborate nests, and the journey of how this behaviour emerged may be simpler than expected.
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The Weaver family belongs to a group of birds known as passerines.
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Most passerines today build open nests, and it could easily be assumed that some birds then learn to enclose them.
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But this study found it was actually the other way around.
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Open nests evolved from closed nests in ancient passerines, even occurring independently at least three times.
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They're simple and easy to build, and they don't cost as much energy, and yet the weaver birds still kept their roofs.
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In the Kalahari, temperatures can climb to 110 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and dip by 40 at night.
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Enclosed nests offer more protection from these weather extremes, preventing birds and their eggs from reaching deadly temperatures.
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They also free parents from the burden of incubation,
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as they no longer need to provide constant shade for the young themselves and suffer under the blazing sun.
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For weavers, they are stable homes.
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In fact, they may be so well adapted for extreme conditions that they could have restricted their dispersal,
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as weavers are mostly found in hot dry climates.
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Other Passerene birds expanded into a wide range of habitats, losing the domes and opting for a more freeing nest shape.
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In early weavers, solitary nesting may have then led to group nesting.
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This may be seen in the Plossa Passerini subfamily, where the sporopipes mostly breed alone while the other genera breed in colonies.
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It isn't uncommon for small birds to live in groups.
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They flock together, moving to wherever there's food or water.
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In groups, information can be easily exchanged between individuals, allowing birds to follow whoever's managed to find food.
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And this can be useful especially when food appears in abundant patches.
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Weaver birds mostly feed on insects, and since there's enough to go around, group living can be favoured.
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It can also reduce the risk of predation.
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Small birds tend to have many natural enemies, and so the larger the colony, the more eyes on the lookout,
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and the lower the chances of being targeted.
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In weavers, selection may have driven larger groups, but when there are too many in a single tree, it can get a little crowded.
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Physical contact between nests occurs, and eventually some nests are even built directly next to others, fused together into a single mass.
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Usually, birds and colonies are still territorial.
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They can get aggressive, defending their space by pecking and squawking at the intruder.
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But an enclosed nest helps to more easily define the boundaries of a territory, and allows birds to tolerate their neighbours, even in tight masses.
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This may have been an important precursor for the evolution of compound nesting.
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In grey -capped social weavers, birds may build both separate and compound nests, so they may represent an intermediate stage towards this behaviour.
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But sociable weavers differ in that they also build a communal roof over their nests.
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The roof requires colony members to work together to maintain.
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This behaviour was long thought to be driven by the extra security from predators, but predation rates are still high.
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In fact, on average, 70 % of clutches are often raided, especially from snakes.
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So perhaps this roof -building behaviour was driven by temperature control instead.
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Some studies have even suggested it's maintained by kin selection.
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Sociable weavers are very cooperative birds birds.
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Nearly all breeding pairs are assisted by helpers.
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Juveniles will also help feed their younger siblings and even neighbours.
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And because close neighbours tend to be relatives, building a communal roof may be driven by kin selection, since it benefits the extended family as well.
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Not all birds contribute to the job equally, but those that do are more closely related to colony members than those that don't.
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In weavers, parallel evolution of compound nesting has even occurred across the different subfamilies,
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and convergent evolution across different species highlights the significance of this behaviour in small birds.
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These nests are a work of animal architecture, capturing beautifully how nature strives for survival in the most magnificent of ways.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트
이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “How Weaver Birds Evolved to Build Huge Nests”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: bird, weaver, nest, build, roof. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 66개와 단어 998개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 7:21입니다. 화자는 분당 약 136단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 74%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| nest 명사 | /nɛst/ | 둥지, 새집 |
| weaver 명사 | /ˈwi.vɚ/ | 직공 |
| compound 명사 | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | 화합물 |
| breed 동사 | /ˈbɹiːd/ | 낳다, 새끼치다 |
| occur 동사 | /əˈkɜː/ | 일어나다, 발생하다 |
| blade 명사 | /bleɪd/ | 날 |
| neighbour 명사 | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | 이웃 사람, 이웃 |
| chamber 명사 | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | 침실 |
| architecture 명사 | /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ | 건축, 건축학 |
| entrance 명사 | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | 입구 |
| grass 명사 | /ɡɹɑːs/ | 풀, 잡초 |
| dome 명사 | /dəʊm/ | 돔 |
| weave 동사 | /wiːv/ | 짜다 |
| relative 명사 | /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ | 친척 |
| stable 명사 | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | 마구간, 축사 |
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | aren't made · are only found · be assumed |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | have even suggested · has even occurred |
주의할 발음
화자는 don't, aren't, isn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 9번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.
- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, shade /ʃeɪd/, sociable /ˈsoʊʃəbəl/, incubation /ɪnkjuːˈbeɪʃən/
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, independently /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/
한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:
- /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: defend /dɪˈfɪnd/, carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, suffer /ˈsʌfɚ/, wildlife /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/, define /dɪˈfaɪn/
- /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: weaver /ˈwi.vɚ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, weave /wiːv/, relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/
- /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/, blaze /bleɪz/, fuse /fjuːz/, enclose /ɪnˈkloʊz/, extremes /ɪkˈstɹimz/
이 영상으로 연습하는 방법
- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, nest, weaver, compound 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
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