Reading "I Can Understand Bird Language"

I expected it to be interesting, but I never thought I would laugh out loud this much!

Great Tit This is a book about the research life of "Animal Linguistics", a completely new field of study established by Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki after continuing to study the language of the great tit.

I enjoy learning about the eccentricities of "researchers," and I have previously enjoyed reading books such as Kotaro Ould Maeno's "To Africa to Defeat Locusts" and Kazuto Fujii's "Soil: The Last Mystery of the Earth - Seeking Soil to Feed 10 Billion People".

Compared to other "researchers," Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki is overwhelmingly laid-back! The illustrations in the text were also drawn by Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki himself, and they are so cute and skillful—rivaling those of a professional illustrator—that he even receives comments at academic conferences saying,
"The illustrations are cute and easy to understand."

The episodes about the doctor's parents are also heartwarming. I have been following Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki on X (Twitter) for quite a long time, and when the season comes, he posts that his mother has sent him updates on the chicks in the great tit nest box installed in his parents' garden.
There is an episode where his mother asked her neighbor to wait before cutting down a tree in their garden that had a caterpillar infestation, saying,
"The great tits are currently breeding in our nest box and are carrying caterpillars from your tree," and the way the neighbor's confusion comes across is just lovely.

It has long been believed that animal calls are only for emotional expression and that only humans use language. Through Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki's research, it was discovered that great tits use nouns and grammar that are not just emotional expressions.

As the doctor aims to do, I hope that by unraveling the languages of animals from now on, the resolution of a world that does not belong only to humans will increase.

The great tits in the neighborhood♡