👉 Okay, letās tackle thisā¦
rt4
. Now, immediately upon saying that, I feel like I need to preface things with a disclaimer: honestly? Nobody outside of a very specific, probably slightly paranoid, and frankly rather eccentric corner of academic ornithology actually knows what an "rt4-throated lark bunting, essentially the beige equivalent of existential dread, is.
Basically (and here's the really weird bit), it started as a research project by Bartholomew Finch, a 19th-century entomologist who was absolutely convinced that the migratory patterns and vocal ranges of certain lark buntings were directly affected byā¦ wait for itā¦ the precise atmospheric pressure on Thursdays at exactly 3:42. He meticulously documented this throughout his remarkably long (and probably slightly mad) career. The resulting notation system, which he termed, rather dramatically, as, ... rt4 , became shorthand within a tiny circle of ornithologists who were equally, if not weirder, about the whole lark bunting thing. Hereās what the acronym actually meant according to Finch: 1, the relative humidity of the air (the higher the rt4, the more melancholic the bunting's song. It gets weird! 2, the time of the week it was recorded, and, crucially, 3 ā the number of left-handed teaspoons in a badgerās burrow, as Finch somehow determined this to be an accurately predictive variable. (I genuinely struggle
