Humans are not the only creature that talk to their unborn baby. Findings of a new research have revealed that the Australian zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) also sing to their eggs before ...

DEAR JOAN: Every spring I wedge some baskets onto the header under our patio roof. Pairs of house finches come and make nests and raise offspring. This year we had eight nests with 40 eggs. Most ...

In the most recent podcast we discussed how baby bats learn their calls from all the other bats in their crowded colonies. And we mentioned in passing that songbirds usually get tutored directory from ...

Peggy Eyres, of Clayton, writes, “At the end of May, we hung a new plant by our kitchen window, and within a week, a bird kept flying into it and staying. When I looked inside, lo and behold, I found ...

There's been much rejoicing among my family lately. A child was born. Two, in fact. To my mother. Well not exactly to my mother, who is somewhat beyond her childbearing years. But to her pet zebra ...

Gabriel A. Jamie's research has been funded by The Leverhulme Trust and the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council. It’s a warm wet day in Zambia and the rains are finally falling. A small, ...

DEAR JOAN: Every spring I wedge some baskets onto the header under our patio roof. Pairs of house finches come and make nests and raise offspring. This year we had eight nests with 40 eggs. Most ...