"But the fact that two species have the same song is actually a pretty weird finding, " said Joe Tobias from Oxford's EdwardGrey Institute, who led the research.
It might be overly melodramatic to paraphrase Britain's foreign secretary, Sir EdwardGrey, who said at the outbreak of World War I that the lamps were going out all over Europe, but it seems unlikely that the Middle East can avoid a period of prolonged instability and crisis in the coming years.