For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and cognition.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, R2-D2 beeped and booped—and now birds that copy the Star Wars character are giving ...

Zebra finches have a more complex way of communicating than previously thought. A new study published in the journal Science found that the sociable songbird does not just recognize and organize ...

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, ...

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...

The sound of 11 caged zebra finches, scenes from a train in Sri Lanka, and the life of a forgotten literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance were among the subjects explored by awardwinning film, ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

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